By Hope                                               H.B. No. 2303
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the penalty for possession of a live game animal.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 63.104, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
 1-5     amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (b)  A person [who violates Section 63.007 of this code or a
 1-8     provision of a permit issued under that section or] who violates
 1-9     Section 63.103 of this code commits an offense that is a Class B
1-10     Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor.
1-11           (c)  A person who violates Section 63.002 of this code
1-12     commits an offense that is a Class C Parks and Wildlife Code
1-13     misdemeanor.
1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-15           SECTION 3.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-16     only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
1-17     Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
1-18     the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
1-19     before that date.
1-20           (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
1-21     Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
1-22     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-23           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.