By: Hughes, Flores, Perry S.B. No. 317

(In the Senate - Filed January 7, 2019; February 7, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Water & Rural Affairs; April 4, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 4, 2019, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 317 By: Kolkhorst

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the taking of feral hogs without a hunting license.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 42.002(c), Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended to read as follows:

(c) A resident landowner or any person, with the consent of the landowner, [the landowner's agent or lessee] may take feral hogs [causing depredation] on the resident landowner's land without having acquired a hunting license.

SECTION 2. Section 42.005(f), Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended to read as follows:

(f) A nonresident landowner or any person, with the consent of the landowner, [the landowner's agent or lessee] may take feral hogs [causing depredation] on the nonresident landowner's land without having acquired a hunting license required by this chapter.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.

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