1-1     By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 133
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 7, 1999; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
 1-4     February 22, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0;
 1-6     February 22, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 133                    By:  Brown
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the offense of retaining of lightning whelks caught in
1-11     shrimp trawls.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 77.0191, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
1-14     amended to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 77.0191.  RETENTION OF REDFISH, [AND] SPECKLED SEA
1-16     TROUT, AND LIGHTNING WHELKS.  (a)  No person who is using a trawl
1-17     for the purpose of taking shrimp may retain a redfish, [or]
1-18     speckled sea trout, or lightning whelk, also known as Busycon
1-19     perversum pulleyi, caught in the trawl.
1-20           (b)  No person may retain a redfish, [or] speckled sea trout,
1-21     or lightning whelk if the person is on board a boat licensed under
1-22     this chapter and if there is a shrimp trawl on board the boat.
1-23           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-24     The change in law made by this Act applies only to an offense
1-25     committed on or after the effective date of this Act.  For purposes
1-26     of this section, an offense is committed before the effective date
1-27     of this Act if any element of the offense occurs before that date.
1-28           (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
1-29     Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
1-30     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-31           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-32     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-33     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-34     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-35     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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