Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. Line and page numbers may not match official copy. By Finnell H.B. No. 1335 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to fishing license exemptions. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 46.002, Parks and Wildlife Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-6 (c) In addition to the exemptions provided by Subsection 1-7 (a)(1), a resident who is 70 years of age or older is not required 1-8 to have a fishing license under this chapter while the person: 1-9 (1) is fishing on property owned by the person or is 1-10 fishing in the county of the person's primary residence or a county 1-11 adjacent to that county; and 1-12 (2) is not fishing from a motorboat in coastal waters. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.