By:  Phillips (Senate Sponsor - Estes)                            H.B. No. 1328
	(In the Senate - Received from the House March 31, 2003; 
April 3, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural 
Resources; May 5, 2003, reported favorably by the following vote:  
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 5, 2003, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to cooperative federal and state wildlife-restoration 
projects.  
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 83.003, Parks and Wildlife Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 83.003.  WILDLIFE-RESTORATION PROJECTS. The department 
shall establish and conduct cooperative wildlife-restoration 
projects under an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide that 
the United States shall aid the States in wildlife-restoration 
projects, and for other purposes" (Public Law No. 415, 75th 
Congress).   The department shall comply with the act and rules and 
regulations promulgated under the act by the United States
secretary of the interior [agriculture].
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.



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