1-1           By:  Harris                                      S.B. No. 201

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 14, 1997; January 16, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;

 1-4     March 17, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 10,

 1-5     Nays 0; March 17, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the disposition of freshwater trout stamp fees.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 43.505, Parks and

1-11     Wildlife Code, is amended to read as follows:

1-12           (b)  The stamp sale net receipts may be spent only for the

1-13     purchase, rearing, and stocking of freshwater trout in this state

1-14     [for any purposes authorized by Section 11.033 of this code and are

1-15     hereby appropriated for such purposes].

1-16           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-17           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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