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.