By:  Parker                                            S.B. No. 179
       73R2461 MI-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to hunting in state parks.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 62.062, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 62.062.  Season.  <(a)>  As sound biological management
    1-7  practices warrant, the commission may prescribe an open season for
    1-8  recreational hunting in state parks, forts, or sites where size,
    1-9  location, and other physical conditions permit hunting.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-15  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-16  passage, and it is so enacted.