1-1 By: Harris of Dallas S.B. No. 521
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 1, 1993; March 1, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 April 15, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
1-5 Nays 0; April 15, 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 requirement for a muzzleloader hunting stamp;
1-22 providing a penalty.
1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-24 SECTION 1. Chapter 43, Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended
1-25 by adding Subchapter Q to read as follows:
1-26 SUBCHAPTER Q. MUZZLELOADER HUNTING STAMP
1-27 Sec. 43.581. MUZZLELOADER HUNTING STAMP REQUIRED. No person
1-28 may hunt wild deer, turkey, or javelina (collared peccary) during
1-29 an open season prescribed by law or by proclamation of the
1-30 commission during which only muzzleloaders may be used for hunting
1-31 unless the person has in the person's possession a muzzleloader
1-32 hunting stamp.
1-33 Sec. 43.582. ISSUANCE AND FORM OF STAMP. The department or
1-34 its agent may issue a muzzleloader hunting stamp. The stamp shall
1-35 be issued in a form prescribed by the department. The stamp must
1-36 be signed on its face by the person to whom it is issued for the
1-37 stamp to be valid for hunting purposes.
1-38 Sec. 43.583. FEE. The fee for a muzzleloader stamp is $10
1-39 or an amount set by the commission, whichever amount is more.
1-40 Sec. 43.584. HUNTING LICENSE REQUIRED. The purchase or
1-41 possession of a muzzleloader hunting stamp does not permit a person
1-42 to hunt wild deer, turkey, or javelina without the license required
1-43 by Chapter 42 of this code or by means not authorized by this code.
1-44 Sec. 43.585. DISPOSITION OF FEES. (a) Fifty cents of a fee
1-45 collected under this subchapter may be retained as a collection fee
1-46 by an agent of the department other than a department employee.
1-47 (b) After deduction of any collection fee, the net receipts
1-48 from stamp sales shall be sent to the department.
1-49 Sec. 43.586. REFUSAL TO SHOW STAMP. A person hunting a
1-50 species named in Section 43.581 of this code during an open
1-51 muzzleloader season who fails or refuses on the demand of any game
1-52 warden or other peace officer to show a valid muzzleloader hunting
1-53 stamp is presumed to be in violation of Section 43.581 of this
1-54 code.
1-55 Sec. 43.587. PENALTY. A person who violates Section 43.581
1-56 of this code commits an offense that is a Class C Parks and
1-57 Wildlife Code misdemeanor.
1-58 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-59 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-60 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-61 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-62 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-63 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-64 * * * * *
1-65 Austin,
1-66 Texas
1-67 April 15, 1993
1-68 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-1 President of the Senate
2-2 Sir:
2-3 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred S.B.
2-4 No. 521, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
2-5 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-6 pass and be printed.
2-7 Truan,
2-8 Vice-Chairman
2-9 * * * * *
2-10 WITNESSES
2-11 FOR AGAINST ON
2-12 ___________________________________________________________________
2-13 Name: Robert L. Cook x
2-14 Representing: Tx Parks & Wildlife
2-15 City: Austin
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