1-1 By: Woolley (Senate Sponsor - Brown) H.B. No. 520
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 12, 1997;
1-3 March 13, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Natural Resources; April 4, 1997, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 4, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to menhaden boat licenses.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 47.008, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 Sec. 47.008. MENHADEN BOAT LICENSES [LICENSE]. (a) A boat
1-13 may not be used for the purpose of catching, storing, and
1-14 transporting menhaden in tidal water unless the owner of the boat
1-15 has acquired a Class A menhaden boat license.
1-16 (b) A boat may not be used for the purpose of assisting in
1-17 catching menhaden in tidal water unless the owner of the boat has
1-18 acquired a Class B menhaden boat license.
1-19 (c) The license fee for each Class A menhaden boat is $2,000
1-20 or an amount set by the commission, whichever amount is more, for
1-21 each yearly period.
1-22 (d) The commission shall set the license fee for each Class
1-23 B menhaden boat for each yearly period in an amount not to exceed
1-24 $50.
1-25 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-26 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-28 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-29 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-30 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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