1-1 By: Brown S.B. No. 569
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 2, 1993; March 3, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 April 20, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 20, 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. 569 By: Ratliff
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the management and control of feral hogs.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 12, Parks and Wildlife
1-26 Code, is amended by adding Section 12.028 to read as follows:
1-27 Sec. 12.028. MANAGEMENT OF FERAL HOGS. (a) The department
1-28 shall develop and administer a feral hog management program to
1-29 reduce and control the population of feral hogs and to protect
1-30 wildlife and agricultural resources from depredation by feral hogs.
1-31 (b) In managing feral hogs under the program developed under
1-32 this section, the department may:
1-33 (1) disseminate information pertaining to reduction
1-34 and control of feral hog populations;
1-35 (2) conduct scientific investigations and surveys of
1-36 feral hogs for population reduction;
1-37 (3) research and manage feral hogs;
1-38 (4) restrict the release of trapped feral hogs back
1-39 into the wild;
1-40 (5) require inspection and department approval of
1-41 enclosures used to contain trapped feral hogs;
1-42 (6) require a transport permit to transport trapped
1-43 feral hogs from one location to another;
1-44 (7) require trapped feral hogs to be:
1-45 (A) released in the area in which the hogs are
1-46 trapped; or
1-47 (B) transported to enclosures approved by the
1-48 Texas Animal Health Commission and the department;
1-49 (8) require that feral hogs may be removed from an
1-50 enclosure only by hunting or under a transport permit to another
1-51 approved enclosure; and
1-52 (9) authorize department employees to harvest feral
1-53 hogs for population control.
1-54 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-55 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-56 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-57 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-58 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-59 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-60 passage, and it is so enacted.
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1-62 Austin,
1-63 Texas
1-64 April 20, 1993
1-65 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-66 President of the Senate
1-67 Sir:
1-68 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred S.B.
2-1 No. 569, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
2-2 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-3 not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof
2-4 do pass and be printed.
2-5 Sims,
2-6 Chairman
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2-8 WITNESSES
2-9 FOR AGAINST ON
2-10 ___________________________________________________________________
2-11 Name: John Herron x
2-12 Representing: Tx Parks & Wildlife
2-13 City: Austin, Texas
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2-15 Name: Harold D. Oates x
2-16 Representing: Tx Parks & Wildlife
2-17 City: Austin, Texas
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2-19 Name: Alton E. Anderson x
2-20 Representing: Tx Game Warden Assn
2-21 City: Columbia, Texas
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