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By: Hegar |
S.B. No. 1122 |
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(In the Senate - Filed February 24, 2009; March 13, 2009, |
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read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; |
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March 30, 2009, reported adversely, with favorable Committee |
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Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 30, 2009, |
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sent to printer.) |
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1122 |
By: Eltife |
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the requirement to keep records of game bird or animal |
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carcasses placed in a cold storage or processing facility. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subdivision (8), Section 42.001, Parks and |
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Wildlife Code, is amended to read as follows: |
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(8) "Quartering" means the processing of an animal |
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into not more than two hindquarters each having the leg bone (femur) |
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attached down to the knee [hock] and two front shoulders |
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[forequarters] each having the leg bones (scapula and humerus) |
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[portion to the knee] attached down to the elbow [shoulder blade]. |
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The term also includes removal of two back straps [and trimmings
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from the neck and rib cage]. |
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SECTION 2. Subsections (a) and (f), Section 62.029, Parks |
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and Wildlife Code, are amended to read as follows: |
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(a) In [As used in] this section: |
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(1) "Carcass" has the meaning assigned by Section |
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42.001. |
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(2) "Cold[, "cold] storage or processing facility" has |
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the meaning assigned by Section 42.001. |
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(3) "Hunting lease" has the meaning assigned by |
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Section 43.041. |
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(4) "Quartering" has the meaning assigned by Section |
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42.001. |
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(f) This section does not apply to a private, noncommercial, |
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family-owned cold storage or processing facility unless the |
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facility is located on a hunting lease. |
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SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only |
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to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. |
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An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is |
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covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and the |
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former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of |
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this section, an offense was committed before the effective date of |
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this Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date. |
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SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |
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