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.