By: Oliveira H.B. No. 1643
73R5821 MI-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the transportation of aquatic products.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 47.0181(a), Parks and Wildlife Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) No person, except a commercial fisherman licensed to
1-7 take aquatic products from Texas waters transporting the
1-8 fisherman's own catch within this state, may transport aquatic
1-9 products for commercial purposes, regardless of origin or
1-10 destination, without an invoice containing the following
1-11 information correctly stated and legibly written:
1-12 (1) the invoice number;
1-13 (2) the date of shipment;
1-14 (3) the name and physical address of shipper;
1-15 (4) the name and physical address of receiver;
1-16 (5) the license number of shipper; and
1-17 (6) the quantity of aquatic products contained in the
1-18 shipment described as follows:<;>
1-19 (A) finfish by species and by<,> number or <and>
1-20 weight;<,>
1-21 (B) oysters by volume;<,> and
1-22 (C) <all> other aquatic products by weight.
1-23 SECTION 2. Section 47.0182(a), Parks and Wildlife Code, is
1-24 amended to read as follows:
2-1 (a) Each container of aquatic products shipped for
2-2 commercial purposes must have a label attached to the outside
2-3 listing the kind and weight of the aquatic product contained in the
2-4 package, <following information> correctly stated and legibly
2-5 written<:>
2-6 <(1) the aquatic product transportation invoice number
2-7 of the shipment of which the container is a part; and>
2-8 <(2) the kind and weight of aquatic product>.
2-9 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-15 passage, and it is so enacted.