1-1 By: Sims S.B. No. 971
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1993; March 15, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 April 27, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 27, 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. 971 By: Sims
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the designation of wildlife management areas and to the
1-24 issuance of wildlife management association area hunting lease
1-25 licenses.
1-26 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-27 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 43, Parks and Wildlife
1-28 Code, is amended by adding Section 43.0432 to read as follows:
1-29 Sec. 43.0432. WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION AREA HUNTING
1-30 LEASE LICENSES. (a) The owner of a tract of land included in a
1-31 wildlife management association area under Section 81.301 of this
1-32 code may apply for a wildlife management association area hunting
1-33 lease license for that tract of land.
1-34 (b) A wildlife management association area hunting lease
1-35 license applies only to the tract of land for which it is issued.
1-36 (c) Except as inconsistent with this section, this
1-37 subchapter applies to a wildlife management association area
1-38 hunting lease license in the same manner that it applies to a
1-39 hunting lease license.
1-40 SECTION 2. Section 43.044, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
1-41 amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-42 (c) The fee for a wildlife management association area
1-43 hunting lease license is:
1-44 (1) $30 + $5 per participating landowner if the area
1-45 of the wildlife management association is less than 10,000 acres;
1-46 (2) $60 + $5 per participating landowner if the area
1-47 of the wildlife management association is between 10,000 and 50,000
1-48 acres; and
1-49 (3) $120 + $5 per participating landowner if the area
1-50 of the wildlife management association is over 50,000 acres.
1-51 SECTION 3. Chapter 81, Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended
1-52 by adding Subchapter D to read as follows:
1-53 SUBCHAPTER D. WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION AREAS
1-54 Sec. 81.301. WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION AREAS.
1-55 (a) The department may designate two or more contiguous or
1-56 proximate tracts of land as a wildlife management association area
1-57 if:
1-58 (1) each owner of the land applies for the
1-59 designation;
1-60 (2) the land is inhabited by wildlife;
1-61 (3) the department determines that observing wildlife
1-62 and collecting information on the wildlife will serve the purpose
1-63 of wildlife management in the state; and
1-64 (4) the landowners agree to provide the department
1-65 with information regarding the wildlife under Section 81.302 of
1-66 this code.
1-67 (b) The department shall prescribe the form and content of
1-68 an application under this section.
2-1 Sec. 81.302. WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT PLAN; COLLECTION OF
2-2 INFORMATION. (a) Before the department may approve an application
2-3 for designation of a wildlife management association area under
2-4 this subchapter, the applicants must prepare a wildlife management
2-5 plan according to department guidelines for wildlife management
2-6 plans.
2-7 (b) The department's guidelines shall require the collection
2-8 of information on the wildlife that is in a wildlife management
2-9 association area.
2-10 (c) Activities prescribed in the wildlife management plan
2-11 must be conducted annually to maintain the designation of a
2-12 wildlife management association.
2-13 Sec. 81.303. RULES. The commission may adopt rules
2-14 necessary to implement this subchapter.
2-15 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-16 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
2-21 * * * * *
2-22 Austin,
2-23 Texas
2-24 April 27, 1993
2-25 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-26 President of the Senate
2-27 Sir:
2-28 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred S.B.
2-29 No. 971, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
2-30 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-31 not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof
2-32 do pass and be printed.
2-33 Sims,
2-34 Chairman
2-35 * * * * *
2-36 WITNESSES
2-37 FOR AGAINST ON
2-38 ___________________________________________________________________
2-39 Name: Robert L. Cook x
2-40 Representing: Tx Parks & Wildlife
2-41 City: Austin
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2-43 Name: Robert Dittmar, III, DVM x
2-44 Representing: Doss Wildlife Management Area
2-45 City: Kerrville
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2-47 Name: Presley J. Arhelger x
2-48 Representing: Doss Wildlife Management Assn
2-49 City: Doss
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