By: Krause (Senate Sponsor - Perry) H.B. No. 2238

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2021; May 10, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs; May 19, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2021, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to notice prohibiting hunting on or over certain submerged land.

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

SECTION 1. Section 62.0061(a), Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person may not hunt or take any wild animal or wild bird when the person is on or over privately owned land that is:

(1) submerged under:

(A) public fresh water due to seasonal or occasional innundation; or

(B) public salt water and located above the mean high tide line of the Gulf of Mexico and its bays and estuaries; and

(2) conspicuously marked as privately owned by:

(A) a vertical purple line, at least eight inches in length and one inch in width, painted on trees or posts on the property so as to be readily visible to a person accessing the property when the property is submerged by water; or

(B) a sign or signs that are substantially similar to the following:

POSTED. PRIVATE PROPERTY. NO HUNTING.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.

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