H.B. No. 3075
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to definition, sale, and purchase of certain fish.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 66.111(b), Parks and Wildlife Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to:
    1-7              (1)  a fish, other than a bass of the genus
    1-8  Micropterus, reared in private water under a fish farmer's license;
    1-9              (2)  a fish possessed legally outside this state and
   1-10  transported into this state;
   1-11              (3)  bass of the genus Micropterus reared in private
   1-12  water under a fish farmer's license and marketed for the purpose of
   1-13  stocking the water of this state;
   1-14              (4)  nongame fish regulated under Chapter 67 of this
   1-15  code; or
   1-16              (5)  channel catfish of more than 14 inches in length
   1-17  or blue catfish of more than 14 inches in length taken from the
   1-18  public fresh water of Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Chambers,
   1-19  Franklin, Freestone, Gregg, Hardin, Harris, Harrison, Jasper,
   1-20  Jefferson, Lamar, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Marion, Montgomery,
   1-21  Morris, Nacogdoches, Navarro, Newton, Orange, Panola, Polk, Red
   1-22  River, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby, Titus, Trinity,
   1-23  Tyler, Upshur, or Walker County, or the public fresh water of the
   1-24  Neches or Trinity River in Houston County<; or>
    2-1              <(6)  minnows to be used as bait fish taken from the
    2-2  public fresh waters in Clay, Cottle, Hardeman, Motley, Wichita, or
    2-3  Wilbarger County>.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  Section 66.114, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
    2-5  amended to read as follows:
    2-6        Sec. 66.114.  <BAIT, ROUGH, AND> GAME AND NONGAME FISH
    2-7  DEFINED:  COMMISSION PROCLAMATION.  The commission by proclamation
    2-8  shall define <as> game and nongame fish <those species of fish
    2-9  having sporting value, define as rough fish those bony or
   2-10  rough-fleshed fish having no sporting value, and define as bait
   2-11  fish those species of fish that may be taken or used as bait fish>.
   2-12        SECTION 3.  Sections 66.023 and 66.024, Parks and Wildlife
   2-13  Code, are repealed.
   2-14        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-15        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.