By Saunders                                           H.B. No. 1384
       74R5961 MI-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the purchase and sale of certain fish taken from fresh
    1-3  water in certain counties.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 66.111(b), Parks and Wildlife Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to:
    1-8              (1)  a fish, other than a bass of the genus
    1-9  Micropterus, reared in private water under a fish farmer's license;
   1-10              (2)  a fish possessed legally outside this state and
   1-11  transported into this state;
   1-12              (3)  bass of the genus Micropterus reared in private
   1-13  water under a fish farmer's license and marketed for the purpose of
   1-14  stocking the water of this state;
   1-15              (4)  nongame fish regulated under Chapter 67 of this
   1-16  code;
   1-17              (5)  channel catfish of more than 14 inches in length
   1-18  or blue catfish of more than 14 inches in length taken from the
   1-19  public fresh water of Angelina, Bastrop, Bowie, Camp, Cass,
   1-20  Chambers, Colorado, Fayette, Franklin, Freestone, Gregg, Hardin,
   1-21  Harris, Harrison, Jasper, Jefferson, Lamar, Leon, Liberty, Madison,
   1-22  Marion, Matagorda, Montgomery, Morris, Nacogdoches, Navarro,
   1-23  Newton, Orange, Panola, Polk, Red River, Sabine, San Augustine, San
   1-24  Jacinto, Shelby, Titus, Trinity, Tyler, Upshur, <or> Walker, or
    2-1  Wharton County, or the public fresh water of the Neches or Trinity
    2-2  River in Houston County; or
    2-3              (6)  minnows to be used as bait fish taken from the
    2-4  public fresh waters in Clay, Cottle, Hardeman, Motley, Wichita, or
    2-5  Wilbarger County.
    2-6        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-7        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.