By: Oliveira H.B. No. 1644
73R5546 MI-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the shipping of finfish in individual packages.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 47.0182(b) and (c), Parks and Wildlife
1-5 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) <No person may ship finfish in individual packages that
1-7 contain more than one species of aquatic life.>
1-8 <(c)> A person possessing a shipment of aquatic products in
1-9 violation of Subsection (a) <or (b)> of this section commits an
1-10 offense.
1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.