By Grusendorf H.B. No. 1956
74R7218 PAM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to eliminating certain mandated reports prepared by the
1-3 Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission or the Texas Parks and Wildlife
1-4 Department.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 66.217, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
1-7 amended to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 66.217. Finfish Research. (a) The department shall
1-9 conduct continuous research and study of:
1-10 (1) the supply, economic value, environment, and
1-11 breeding habits of the various species of finfish, including red
1-12 drum and speckled sea trout;
1-13 (2) factors affecting the increase or decrease of
1-14 finfish supply;
1-15 (3) the use of trawls, nets, and other devices for the
1-16 taking of finfish;
1-17 (4) the effect on finfish of industrial and other
1-18 types of water pollution in areas naturally frequented by finfish;
1-19 and
1-20 (5) statistical information gathered by the department
1-21 on the marketing, harvesting, processing, and catching of finfish
1-22 landed in this state.
1-23 (b) The department shall make findings <and issue reports>
1-24 based on the research required by Subsection (a) of this section.
2-1 (c) The findings <and reports> shall be filed in the
2-2 permanent records of the department.
2-3 <(d) The reports and findings must include recommendations
2-4 for opening or closing bay areas to the use of trawls, nets, and
2-5 saltwater trotlines when the studies indicate appropriate action to
2-6 prevent waste or avoid depletion of finfish.>
2-7 <(e) Before the convening of each regular session of the
2-8 legislature, the department shall publish and present to the
2-9 governor and the legislature a special report on studies, findings,
2-10 recommendations, and actions taken under this subchapter.>
2-11 SECTION 2. Sections 12.002, 24.010, 28.005, and 77.006,
2-12 Parks and Wildlife Code, are repealed.
2-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-19 passage, and it is so enacted.