By: Kolkhorst  S.B. No. 948
         (In the Senate - Filed February 21, 2019; March 1, 2019,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Water & Rural Affairs;
  April 16, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
  Nays 0; April 16, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to release sites for breeder deer.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter L, Chapter 43, Parks and Wildlife
  Code, is amended by adding Section 43.361 to read as follows:
         Sec. 43.361.  RELEASE SITES. (a)  A release site onto which
  breeder deer are liberated must be surrounded by a fence not less
  than seven feet in height that is capable of retaining deer at all
  times under reasonable and ordinary circumstances.
         (b)  The owner of a release site is responsible for ensuring
  that the fence surrounding the release site and infrastructure
  associated with the fence are in a condition to retain deer as
  provided by Subsection (a).
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
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