1-1 By: Parker S.B. No. 179
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 26, 1993; January 27, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 April 2, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 1; April 2, 1993,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Sims x
1-10 Truan x
1-11 Armbrister x
1-12 Barrientos x
1-13 Bivins x
1-14 Brown x
1-15 Carriker x
1-16 Lucio x
1-17 Montford x
1-18 Ratliff x
1-19 Shelley x
1-20 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 179 By: Sims
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to hunting in state parks.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Section 62.062, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
1-26 amended to read as follows:
1-27 Sec. 62.062. Season. (a) As sound biological management
1-28 practices warrant and until August 31, 1995, the commission may
1-29 prescribe an open season for hunting in state parks, forts, or
1-30 sites where size, location, and other physical conditions permit
1-31 hunting.
1-32 (b) After August 31, 1995, as sound biological practices
1-33 warrant, and after it has established a classification system for
1-34 parks in accordance with Section 13.001(b) of this code, the
1-35 commission shall prescribe an open season for recreational hunting
1-36 in state parks, forts, or sites where size, location, physical
1-37 conditions, safety, and other uses permit hunting.
1-38 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-39 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-40 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-41 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-42 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-43 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-44 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-45 * * * * *
1-46 Austin,
1-47 Texas
1-48 April 2, 1993
1-49 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-50 President of the Senate
1-51 Sir:
1-52 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred S.B.
1-53 No. 179, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-54 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-55 not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof
1-56 do pass and be printed.
1-57 Sims,
1-58 Chairman
1-59 * * * * *
1-60 WITNESSES
1-61 FOR AGAINST ON
1-62 ___________________________________________________________________
1-63 Name: David C. Carson x
1-64 Representing:
1-65 City: McDade
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1-67 Name: Susan C. Peterson x
1-68 Representing: Tx Committee on Natural Resou
2-1 City: Austin
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2-3 Name: Rachel W. Cywinski x
2-4 Representing: Volunteer Pedernales Falls
2-5 City: Austin
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2-7 Name: Carol E. Edwards x
2-8 Representing: Audubon Council of Tx
2-9 City: Austin
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2-11 Name: Sandra Gayle Skrei x
2-12 Representing: Herself
2-13 City: Austin
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2-15 Name: Andrew H. Sansom x
2-16 Representing: Tx Parks & Wildlife
2-17 City: Austin
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2-19 Name: Ken Kramer x
2-20 Representing: Sierra Club
2-21 City: Austin
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2-23 Name: Dede Armentrout x
2-24 Representing: National Audubon Society
2-25 City: Austin
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2-27 Name: Walter Gregory Barfield x
2-28 Representing: Bexar Audubon Society
2-29 City: San Antonio
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2-31 Name: Arthur W. Nagel x
2-32 Representing: Riverside & Landowners Protec
2-33 City: Boerne
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2-35 Name: Ron G. Holliday x
2-36 Representing: Tx Parks & Wildlife
2-37 City: Austin
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2-39 Name: Richard Lloyd Pipes x
2-40 Representing: Bexar Audubon Society
2-41 City: Pleasanton
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