By Kuempel                                            H.B. No. 2463
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to reporting requirements of farm-raised aquatic products.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 66.019, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 66.019.  Statistical Reports.  (a)  The department shall
    1-7  gather statistical information on the harvest of aquatic products
    1-8  of this state.
    1-9        (b)  The department shall prescribe, produce, and distribute
   1-10  the report form.  The form shall be designed to allow for
   1-11  statistical information concerning the numbers and quantity by
   1-12  weight of each species taken, the kinds of equipment used to take
   1-13  each species, and the name of the body of water from which each
   1-14  species was taken.
   1-15        (c)  No dealer who purchases or receives aquatic products
   1-16  directly from any person other than a licensed dealer may fail to
   1-17  file the report with the department each month on or before the
   1-18  10th day of the month following the month in which the reportable
   1-19  activity occurred<.>, except a dealer who purchases or receives
   1-20  farm-raised hybrid striped bass or redfish, who is required to file
   1-21  the report annually.  The report must be filed even if no
   1-22  reportable activity occurs in the month covered by the report.  No
   1-23  dealer required to report may file an incorrect or false report.  A
    2-1  culpable mental state is not required to establish an offense under
    2-2  this section.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills be read on three several days
    2-7  in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.