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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