79R8449 KCR-D

By:  Reyna                                                        H.B. No. 2230



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to fees paid by persons 65 years of age or older for 
certain hunting and fishing privileges.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 11, Parks and Wildlife 
Code, is amended by adding Section 11.0273 to read as follows:
	Sec. 11.0273.  LIMIT ON FEES CHARGED TO CERTAIN PERSONS.  
Notwithstanding any other law, in setting the amounts of fees 
authorized by this code, the commission may not require a person who 
is 65 years of age or older on the date the person obtains a 
noncommercial hunting or fishing license, stamp, tag, permit, or 
similar document conferring hunting or fishing privileges on the 
person to pay a fee that is greater than the fee that a person who 
was 65 years of age or older on September 1, 2004, would have paid 
for that same license, stamp, tag, permit, or similar document.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.