By Danburg                                             H.B. No. 537
       74R834 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the application of the law regarding hunting or target
    1-3  shooting on land owned by another.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 62.012(a), Parks and Wildlife Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  <This section applies only to a county having a
    1-8  population of 2,000,000 or more.>  This section does not apply to a
    1-9  person hunting or target shooting on a public or private shooting
   1-10  range.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.