By Rangel H.B. No. 1927 74R653 PAM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to creating the Kenedy 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 M to read as follows: 1-7 SUBCHAPTER M. KENEDY COUNTY PUBLIC LANDS AND WATER SANCTUARY 1-8 Sec. 82.741. CREATION. All of the state-owned land and 1-9 public water in Kenedy County, including the water, creekbed, and 1-10 banks of Los Olmos Creek, is a game sanctuary. 1-11 Sec. 82.742. PROHIBITED ACTS. (a) Except as permitted 1-12 under Subsection (b) or (c), no person may possess, hunt, or kill 1-13 an animal or bird in the game sanctuary created by Section 82.741. 1-14 (b) Subsection (a) does not apply: 1-15 (1) during the time that the person is in actual 1-16 discharge of official duties, to: 1-17 (A) a peace officer of this state; 1-18 (B) a law enforcement officer of the United 1-19 States; or 1-20 (C) a department employee or a federal wildlife 1-21 management employee; or 1-22 (2) to a person who holds a permit issued under 1-23 Section 43.022 and is acting under the terms of the permit. 1-24 (c) Subsection (a) does not apply to a person who hunts 2-1 waterfowl during the waterfowl season. 2-2 Sec. 82.743. PENALTY. A person who violates Section 82.742 2-3 commits an offense that is a Class C Parks and Wildlife Code 2-4 misdemeanor. 2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.