By Zbranek                                             H.B. No. 621
       74R3161 MI-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to an exemption for senior citizens from the red drum tag
    1-3  requirement.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 46.002, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  A red drum tag issued under this chapter is not required
    1-8  of a person 65 years old or older if the person is a resident or,
    1-9  if a nonresident, if the person's state of residence grants a
   1-10  similar exemption to Texas residents.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-16  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-17  passage, and it is so enacted.