1-1  By:  Telford (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)             H.B. No. 670
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 10, 1995;
    1-3  April 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Natural Resources; May 3, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 3, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to permitting competitive hunting dog events on certain
    1-9  state-controlled property.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 62, Parks and Wildlife
   1-12  Code, is amended by adding Section 62.016 to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 62.016.  COMPETITIVE HUNTING DOG EVENTS.  The department
   1-14  may permit a person to hold or participate in a competitive hunting
   1-15  dog event, including a field trial, in an area controlled by the
   1-16  department and designated by the commission as a public hunting
   1-17  area if:
   1-18              (1)  a participant in the event is prohibited from:
   1-19                    (A)  using a firearm in the event; or
   1-20                    (B)  taking the wildlife that is the object of
   1-21  the event; and
   1-22              (2)  the event does not deter other persons from
   1-23  hunting during a designated hunting season.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-25  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-26  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-27  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-28  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-29  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-30  passage, and it is so enacted.
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