1-1  By:  Hunter of Nueces (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)   H.B. No. 3046
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 1995;
    1-3  May 18, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
    1-4  Resources; May 25, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to vessels and obstructions in fish passes.
    1-9        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-10        SECTION 1.  Sections 66.204(a) and (b), Parks and Wildlife
   1-11  Code, are amended to read as follows:
   1-12        (a)  The commission by proclamation may regulate the
   1-13  placement of obstructions, traps, and mooring in fish passes and
   1-14  the marking of restricted areas in any natural or artificial pass
   1-15  that is opened, reopened, dredged, excavated, constructed, or
   1-16  maintained by the department as a fish pass between the Gulf of
   1-17  Mexico and an inland bay.
   1-18        (b)  No person may operate, possess, or moor a vessel or
   1-19  other floating device, or may place any piling, wire, rope, cable,
   1-20  net, trap, or other obstruction, in a natural or artificial pass
   1-21  opened, reopened, dredged, excavated, constructed, or maintained by
   1-22  the department as a fish pass between the Gulf of Mexico and an
   1-23  inland bay <,> within the <a> distance <of 2,800 feet> inside the
   1-24  pass  <measured> from the mouth of the pass where it empties into
   1-25  <or opens on> the Gulf of Mexico and a permanent marker or sign
   1-26  erected by the department indicating the restricted area.
   1-27        <(b)  The department shall erect permanent iron or concrete
   1-28  monuments showing the restricted area.>
   1-29        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-30  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-31  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-32  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-33  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-34  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-35  passage, and it is so enacted.
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