By: Sims S.B. No. 971 73R3486 MLR-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the designation of wildlife management association 1-3 areas and to the issuance of wildlife management association area 1-4 hunting lease licenses. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Chapter 81, Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended 1-7 by adding Subchapter G to read as follows: 1-8 SUBCHAPTER G. WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION AREAS 1-9 Sec. 81.601. WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION AREAS. (a) 1-10 The owners of two or more contiguous tracts of land in the state 1-11 may apply to the department for designation of that land as a 1-12 wildlife management association area. 1-13 (b) The department may designate two or more contiguous 1-14 tracts of land as a wildlife management association area if: 1-15 (1) the land is inhabited by wildlife; 1-16 (2) the department determines that the observation of 1-17 and collection of information on the wildlife will serve the 1-18 purpose of wildlife management in the state; and 1-19 (3) the landowners agree to provide the department 1-20 with information regarding the wildlife, as required by Section 1-21 81.602 of this code. 1-22 (c) The department shall prescribe the form and content of 1-23 an application under this section. 1-24 Sec. 81.602. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION IN WILDLIFE 2-1 MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION AREAS. Before the department approves an 2-2 application for designation of a wildlife management association 2-3 area under this subchapter, the department and the applicants must 2-4 enter into a written agreement regarding the collection of wildlife 2-5 information by the applicants. The agreement must be signed by the 2-6 department and the applicants and must specify: 2-7 (1) the type of information to be collected; 2-8 (2) the reporting form to be used; and 2-9 (3) the frequency of reports. 2-10 Sec. 81.603. RULES. The commission may adopt rules 2-11 necessary to implement this subchapter. 2-12 SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 43, Parks and Wildlife 2-13 Code, is amended by adding Section 43.049 to read as follows: 2-14 Sec. 43.049. WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION AREA HUNTING 2-15 LEASE LICENSES. (a) The owner of each tract of land included 2-16 within a wildlife management association area designated under 2-17 Section 81.601 of this code may apply to the department for a 2-18 wildlife management association area hunting lease license for that 2-19 tract of land. A wildlife management association area hunting 2-20 lease license applies only to the tract of land for which it is 2-21 issued. 2-22 (b) Except as otherwise provided by this section, the 2-23 provisions of this subchapter relating to a hunting lease license 2-24 apply to a wildlife management association area hunting lease 2-25 license in the same manner that they apply to the hunting lease 2-26 license. 2-27 (c) The fee for a wildlife management association area 3-1 hunting lease license is $10. 3-2 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 3-3 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 3-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 3-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 3-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.