By Sibley                                             S.B. No. 1666
       74R7595 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the creation of a game sanctuary along the Brazos River
    1-3  in Palo Pinto and Parker counties; providing a penalty.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 82, Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended
    1-6  by adding Subchapter M to read as follows:
    1-7              SUBCHAPTER M.  BRAZOS RIVER GAME SANCTUARY
    1-8        Sec. 82.741.  CREATION.  All of the land area and public
    1-9  water in that portion of the state-owned riverbed of the Brazos
   1-10  River in Palo Pinto and Parker counties beginning at the Morris
   1-11  Shepard Dam in Palo Pinto County is a game sanctuary.
   1-12        Sec. 82.742.  PROHIBITED ACTS.  (a)  Except as permitted
   1-13  under Subsections (b) and (c), no person may possess, shoot, or
   1-14  hunt with a firearm, bow and arrow, or crossbow in the game
   1-15  sanctuary created under Section 82.741.
   1-16        (b)  Subsection (a) does not apply to a peace officer of this
   1-17  state, a law enforcement officer of the United States, or a member
   1-18  of the armed forces of the United States or of this state during
   1-19  the time that the officer or member is in the actual discharge of
   1-20  official duties.
   1-21        (c)  Subsection (a) does not apply to waterfowl hunting on
   1-22  any reservoir owned, operated, or maintained by a governmental
   1-23  entity now existing or to be constructed on the Brazos River.
   1-24        Sec. 82.743.  PENALTY.  A person who violates Section 82.742
    2-1  commits an offense that is a Class C Parks and Wildlife Code
    2-2  misdemeanor.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.