1-1  By:  Wentworth                                         S.B. No. 269
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 5, 1993; February 8, 1993,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
    1-4  March 1, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 10,
    1-5  Nays 0; March 1, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Sims               x                               
    1-9        Truan              x                               
   1-10        Armbrister         x                               
   1-11        Barrientos         x                               
   1-12        Bivins             x                               
   1-13        Brown              x                               
   1-14        Carriker           x                               
   1-15        Lucio              x                               
   1-16        Montford           x                               
   1-17        Ratliff                                       x    
   1-18        Shelley            x                               
   1-19                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-20                                AN ACT
   1-21  relating to the authority of a county to regulate the use of
   1-22  certain weapons in the unincorporated area of a county; providing a
   1-23  penalty.
   1-24        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-25        SECTION 1.  Chapter 240, Local Government Code, is amended by
   1-26  adding Subchapter C to read as follows:
   1-27          SUBCHAPTER C.  REGULATION OF USE OF BOWS AND ARROWS
   1-28        Sec. 240.041.  SUBDIVISIONS COVERED BY SUBCHAPTER.  This
   1-29  subchapter applies only to a subdivision all or a part of which is
   1-30  located in the unincorporated area of a county and for which a plat
   1-31  is required to be prepared and filed under Chapter 232.
   1-32        Sec. 240.042.  AUTHORITY TO REGULATE.  (a)  To promote the
   1-33  public safety, the commissioners court of a county by order may
   1-34  prohibit or otherwise regulate hunting with bows and arrows on lots
   1-35  that are 10 acres or smaller and are located in the unincorporated
   1-36  area of the county in a subdivision.
   1-37        (b)  In this section, "hunting" means to hunt as defined by
   1-38  Section 1.101, Parks and Wildlife Code.
   1-39        Sec. 240.043.  PROHIBITED REGULATIONS.  This subchapter does
   1-40  not authorize the commissioners court to regulate the transfer,
   1-41  ownership, possession, or transportation of bows and arrows and
   1-42  does not authorize the court to require the registration of bows
   1-43  and arrows.
   1-44        Sec. 240.044.  INJUNCTION.  Any person is entitled to
   1-45  appropriate injunctive relief to prevent a violation or threatened
   1-46  violation of a prohibition or other regulation adopted under this
   1-47  subchapter from continuing or occurring.
   1-48        Sec. 240.045.  CRIMINAL PENALTY.  A person commits an offense
   1-49  if the person intentionally or knowingly engages in conduct that is
   1-50  a violation of a regulation adopted under this subchapter by the
   1-51  commissioners court.  An offense under this section is a Class C
   1-52  misdemeanor.  If it is shown on the trial of an offense under this
   1-53  section that the person has previously been convicted of an offense
   1-54  under this section, the offense is a Class B misdemeanor.
   1-55        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-56  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-57  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-58  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-59  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-60  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-61  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-63                                                         Austin,
   1-64  Texas
   1-65                                                         March 1, 1993
   1-66  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-67  President of the Senate
   1-68  Sir:
    2-1  We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred S.B.
    2-2  No. 269, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
    2-3  to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
    2-4  pass and be printed.
    2-5                                                         Sims,
    2-6  Chairman
    2-7                               * * * * *
    2-8                               WITNESSES
    2-9                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   2-10  ___________________________________________________________________
   2-11  Name:  Wayne D. Justiss                          x
   2-12  Representing:  Private Citizen
   2-13  City:  Canyon Lake
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