By Staples                                            H.B. No. 2973
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to regulating the taking of coyotes as fur-bearing
 1-3     animals.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 71.001(1), Parks and Wildlife Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7                 (1)  "Fur-bearing animal" means wild beaver, otter,
 1-8     mink, ring-tailed cat, badger, skunk, raccoon, muskrat, opossum,
 1-9     fox, nutria, coyote, or civet cat.
1-10           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-16     passage, and it is so enacted.