By: Kolkhorst  S.B. No. 2112
         (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2025; March 24, 2025, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Water, Agriculture and
  Rural Affairs; March 31, 2025, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 31, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the punishment for certain criminal offenses related to
  cultivated oyster mariculture; increasing a criminal penalty.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 75.0107, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
  amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (b-1) and
  (b-2) to read as follows:
         (b)  A person commits an offense if the person [who]
  violates:
               (1)  Section 75.0104(a) or 75.0106; or
               (2)  a rule adopted under this chapter.
         (b-1)  An [commits an] offense under Subsection (b)(1)
  [that] is a Class B Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor, except that
  the offense is a Class A Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor if it
  is shown on the trial of the offense that the defendant has been
  previously convicted of an offense under Subsection (b)(1) during
  the five-year period preceding the date of the trial of the current
  offense.
         (b-2)  An offense under Subsection (b)(2) is a Class C Parks
  and Wildlife Code misdemeanor, except that the offense is a Class B
  Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor if it is shown on the trial of
  the offense that the defendant has been previously convicted of an
  offense under Subsection (b)(2) two or more times during the
  five-year period preceding the date of the trial of the current
  offense.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
  An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
  governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
  purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
  effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
  before that date.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
 
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