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      By Merritt                                      H.B. No. 1523

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the fee for a fishing license issued to a mentally

 1-3     disabled person.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 46.004(b), Parks and wildlife code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (b)  The commission may establish a lower fee or waive the

 1-8     fee or license requirement for:

 1-9                 (1)  a resident who has a general commercial

1-10     fisherman's license of this state;

1-11                 (2)  a resident who is blind as defined by Section

1-12     94.001, Human Resources Code;

1-13                 (3)  a resident who is a qualified disabled veteran as

1-14     defined by Section 42.012(c) of this code;

1-15                 (4)  a resident or nonresident who is under 17 years

1-16     old; [or]

1-17                 (5)  a resident or nonresident who is 65 years old or

1-18     over; or

1-19                 (6)  a resident who has a mental impairment that

1-20     substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of

1-21     the individual.

1-22           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-3     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-4     passage, and it is so enacted.