By Brown                                               S.B. No. 569
          Substitute the following for S.B. No. 569:
          By Turner of Coleman                               C.S.S.B. No. 569
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the management and control of feral hogs.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 12, Parks and Wildlife
    1-5  Code, is amended by adding Section 12.028 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 12.028 DEPREDATION AND MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR FERAL HOGS.
    1-7  (a)  The department shall develop and administer a feral hog
    1-8  planning program to reduce and control the population of feral hogs
    1-9  and to protect wildlife and agricultural resources from depredation
   1-10  by feral hogs.
   1-11        (b)  In developing a feral hog planning program under this
   1-12  section, the department, with the consent of the landowner or the
   1-13  landowner's agent, may:
   1-14              (1)  disseminate information pertaining to reduction
   1-15  and control of feral hog populations;
   1-16              (2)  conduct scientific investigations and surveys of
   1-17  feral hogs for population reduction;
   1-18              (3)  research the conditions and to what extent captive
   1-19  feral hogs are released into the wild;
   1-20              (4)  coordinate policy analysis with the Animal Health
   1-21  Commission regarding the capture, confinement, and transport of
   1-22  feral hogs;
   1-23              (5)  authorize department employees to harvest feral
   1-24  hogs for population control;
    2-1              (6)  study whether future state laws may be necessary
    2-2  to authorize more aggressive feral hog management programs; and
    2-3              (7)  coordinate depredation management planning for
    2-4  feral hogs with the Texas Animal Damage Control Service, Texas A&M
    2-5  University System.
    2-6        (c)  Nothing in this section shall construed to prohibit the
    2-7  hunting or killing of a feral hog by any person, except as provided
    2-8  in Section 43.1095(a) of this code.
    2-9        (d)  Nothing in this section shall be construed to restrict
   2-10  those feral hog control activities of the Texas Animal Damage
   2-11  Control Service and its cooperators as authorized by Subchapter A,
   2-12  Chapter 825 of the Health and Safety Code.
   2-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-19  passage, and it is so enacted.