88R7055 BEE-D
 
  By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 810
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to requirements for certain licenses and permits issued by
  the Parks and Wildlife Department.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Parks and Wildlife
  Code, is amended by adding Section 61.061 to read as follows:
         Sec. 61.061.  AFFIDAVIT REQUIRED. A proclamation of the
  commission under this chapter must require that an applicant for
  the issuance, reissuance, or renewal of a license, permit, or other
  authorization to possess wildlife resources submit with the
  application an affidavit made before an officer qualified to
  administer oaths affirming that the person has read and understands
  each provision of this code and rule adopted under this code
  relating to the administration of drugs to the wildlife resource to
  which the license, permit, or other authorization applies.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to an application for the
  issuance, reissuance, or renewal of a license, permit, or other
  authorization submitted on or after the effective date of this Act.
  An application for the issuance, reissuance, or renewal of a
  license, permit, or other authorization submitted before the
  effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
  date the application was submitted, and the former law is continued
  in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.