By Rangel                                             H.B. No. 1926
       74R978 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to creating the Kleberg County Public Lands and Water
    1-3  Sanctuary; providing a penalty.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 82, Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended
    1-6  by adding Subchapter N to read as follows:
    1-7    SUBCHAPTER N.  KLEBERG COUNTY PUBLIC LANDS AND WATER SANCTUARY
    1-8        Sec. 82.751.  CREATION.  All of the state-owned land and
    1-9  public water in Kleberg County, including the waters, creekbeds,
   1-10  and banks of Los Olmos, Petranilla, and San Fernando creeks, is a
   1-11  game sanctuary.
   1-12        Sec. 82.752.  PROHIBITED ACTS.  (a)  Except as permitted
   1-13  under Subsection (b) or (c), no person may possess, hunt, or kill
   1-14  an animal or bird in the game sanctuary created by Section 82.751.
   1-15        (b)  Subsection (a) does not apply:
   1-16              (1)  during the time that the person is in actual
   1-17  discharge of official duties, to:
   1-18                    (A)  a peace officer of this state;
   1-19                    (B)  a law enforcement officer of the United
   1-20  States; or
   1-21                    (C)  a department employee or a federal wildlife
   1-22  management employee; or
   1-23              (2)  to a person who holds a permit issued under
   1-24  Section 43.022 and is acting under the terms of the permit.
    2-1        (c)  Subsection (a) does not apply to a person who hunts
    2-2  waterfowl during the waterfowl season.
    2-3        Sec. 82.753.  PENALTY.  A person who violates Section 82.752
    2-4  commits an offense that is a Class C Parks and Wildlife Code
    2-5  misdemeanor.
    2-6        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
   2-11                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
   2-12        Amend H.B. 1926 as follows:
   2-13        (1)  On page 1, line 8, strike Sec. 82.751 and substitute
   2-14  "Sec. 82.751.  CREATION.  All of the land area and public water in
   2-15  state-owned riverbeds in Kleberg County, including the waters,
   2-16  creekbeds, and banks of Los Olmos, Petranilla, and San Fernando
   2-17  creeks, is a game preserve.".
   2-18                                                              Kuempel
   2-19                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 2
   2-20        Amend H.B. 1926 as follows:
   2-21        (1)  On page 1, line 13, strike "or (c)".
   2-22        (2)  On page 1, line 14, strike "animal" and substitute
   2-23  "exotic animal as defined by Section 62.015, game animal,
   2-24  fur-bearing animal,".
   2-25        (3)  On page 1, strike lines 23-24 and substitute the
   2-26  following:
   2-27              (2)  to a person who:
    3-1                    (A)  holds a permit issued under Section 43.022
    3-2  and is acting under the terms of the permit;
    3-3                    (B)  is conducting an activity authorized under a
    3-4  lease, easement, or permit issued by the General Land Office or the
    3-5  School Land Board other than hunting or the possession of an animal
    3-6  or bird protected under Subsection (a);
    3-7                    (C)  hunts waterfowl during waterfowl season; or
    3-8                    (D)  is transporting on public roads lawfully
    3-9  taken or possessed animals or birds.
   3-10        (4)  On page 2, strike lines 1-2.
   3-11                                                              Siebert