By Woolley H.B. No. 520
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to menhaden boat licenses.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 47.008, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 47.008. MENHADEN BOAT LICENSES [LICENSE]. (a) A boat
1-7 may not be used for the purpose of catching, storing, and
1-8 transporting menhaden in tidal water unless the owner of the boat
1-9 has acquired a Class A menhaden boat license.
1-10 (b) A boat may not be used for the purpose of assisting in
1-11 catching menhaden in tidal water unless the owner of the boat has
1-12 acquired a Class B menhaden boat license.
1-13 (c) The license fee for each Class A menhaden boat is $2,000
1-14 or an amount set by the commission, whichever amount is more, for
1-15 each yearly period.
1-16 (d) The commission shall set the license fee for each Class
1-17 B menhaden boat for each yearly period in an amount not to exceed
1-18 $50.
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.