By:  Nelson                                           S.B. No. 1415
       73R7367 MLR-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the creation of a game sanctuary along the Brazos River
    1-3  in Palo Pinto and Parker counties; providing a penalty.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 82, Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended
    1-6  by adding Subchapter M to read as follows:
    1-7              SUBCHAPTER M.  BRAZOS RIVER GAME SANCTUARY
    1-8        Sec. 82.741.  CREATION.  All of the land area and public
    1-9  water in that portion of the state-owned riverbed of the Brazos
   1-10  River in Palo Pinto and Parker counties beginning at the Morris
   1-11  Shepard Dam in Palo Pinto County is a game sanctuary.
   1-12        Sec. 82.742.  PROHIBITED ACTS.  (a)  Except as permitted
   1-13  under Subsections (b) and (c) of this section, no person may
   1-14  possess, shoot, or hunt with a firearm, bow and arrow, or crossbow
   1-15  in the game sanctuary created under Section 82.741 of this code.
   1-16        (b)  Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to a peace
   1-17  officer of this state, a law enforcement officer of the United
   1-18  States, or a member of the armed forces of the United States or of
   1-19  this state during the time that the officer or member is in the
   1-20  actual discharge of official duties.
   1-21        (c)  Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to
   1-22  waterfowl hunting on any reservoir owned, operated, or maintained
   1-23  by a governmental entity now existing or to be constructed on the
   1-24  Brazos River.
    2-1        Sec. 82.743.  PENALTY.  A person who violates Section 82.742
    2-2  of this code commits an offense that is a Class C Parks and
    2-3  Wildlife Code misdemeanor.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-10  passage, and it is so enacted.