By Kuempel                                            H.B. No. 2081
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority to manage bait shrimp sales.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 77.007, Subsection (c), Parks and
    1-5  Wildlife Code, is amended to read as  follows:
    1-6        (c)  A proclamation issued under Subsection (a) of this
    1-7  section may limit the quantity and size of shrimp that may be
    1-8  caught, possessed, sold, or purchased and may prescribe the times,
    1-9  places, conditions, and means and manner of catching shrimp.
   1-10  However, measures dealing with sale and purchases may only be
   1-11  implemented at first sale or exchange transaction, except that
   1-12  measures dealing with the sale and purchase of bait shrimp may be
   1-13  implemented beyond the first sale or exchange transaction.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.