By Grusendorf                                         H.B. No. 2130
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2130:
          By Oakley                                         C.S.H.B. No. 2130
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to suits for recovery of value of certain species and
    1-3  collection of restitution after judgment.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 12.303, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
    1-6  amended by amending Subsections (a) and (b) and adding Subsection
    1-7  (c) to read as follows:
    1-8        (a)  The attorney general, <or> the county attorney of the
    1-9  county in which the violation occurred, or a private attorney who
   1-10  contracts with the attorney general or a county attorney  may bring
   1-11  a civil suit under this subchapter in the name of the state to
   1-12  recover the value of each fish, shellfish, reptile, amphibian,
   1-13  bird, or animal unlawfully killed, caught, taken, possessed, or
   1-14  injured.
   1-15        (b)  A suit under this section shall be brought in the county
   1-16  in which the violation occurred, <except that the attorney general
   1-17  may bring suit> or in Travis County.
   1-18        (c)  An attorney bringing a civil suit under this subchapter
   1-19  is exempt from paying a filing fee.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills be read on three several days
   1-24  in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, and
    2-1  that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-2  passage, and it is so enacted.