1-1  By:  Saunders (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)           H.B. No. 1384
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1995;
    1-3  May 12, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
    1-4  Resources; May 19, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 19, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the purchase and sale of certain fish taken from fresh
    1-9  water in certain counties.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 66.111(b), Parks and Wildlife Code, is
   1-12  amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (b)  Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to:
   1-14              (1)  a fish, other than a bass of the genus
   1-15  Micropterus, reared in private water under a fish farmer's license;
   1-16              (2)  a fish possessed legally outside this state and
   1-17  transported into this state;
   1-18              (3)  bass of the genus Micropterus reared in private
   1-19  water under a fish farmer's license and marketed for the purpose of
   1-20  stocking the water of this state;
   1-21              (4)  nongame fish regulated under Chapter 67 of this
   1-22  code;
   1-23              (5)  channel catfish of more than 14 inches in length
   1-24  or blue catfish of more than 14 inches in length taken from the
   1-25  public fresh water of Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Chambers,
   1-26  Franklin, Freestone, Gregg, Hardin, Harris, Harrison, Jasper,
   1-27  Jefferson, Lamar, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Marion, Montgomery,
   1-28  Morris, Nacogdoches, Navarro, Newton, Orange, Panola, Polk, Red
   1-29  River, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby, Titus, Trinity,
   1-30  Tyler, Upshur, or Walker County, <or> the public fresh water of the
   1-31  Neches or Trinity River in Houston County, or the public fresh
   1-32  water of the Colorado River in Bastrop, Colorado, Fayette,
   1-33  Matagorda, or Wharton County; or
   1-34              (6)  minnows to be used as bait fish taken from the
   1-35  public fresh waters in Clay, Cottle, Hardeman, Motley, Wichita, or
   1-36  Wilbarger County.
   1-37        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-38        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-39  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-40  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-41  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-42  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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