Bill Text: TX SB840 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the possession, transportation, and release of certain nonindigenous snakes; increasing a criminal penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-20 - Committee report printed and distributed [SB840 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB840-Comm_Sub.html
By: Springer | S.B. No. 840 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 26, 2021; March 11, 2021, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Water, Agriculture & | ||
Rural Affairs; April 20, 2021, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 20, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the possession, transportation, and release of certain | ||
nonindigenous snakes; increasing a criminal penalty. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 43.851(a), Parks and Wildlife Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The commission by rule shall establish permits that | ||
allow permit holders to possess or transport in this state a live | ||
nonindigenous snake, including a hybrid of any kind, that is: | ||
(1) venomous [ |
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(2) a constrictor that is one of the following: | ||
(A) African rock python, Python sebae; | ||
(B) Asiatic rock python, Python molurus; | ||
(C) Burmese python, Python bivittatus; | ||
(D) green anaconda, Eunectes murinus; | ||
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reticulatus; or | ||
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natalensis. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 43.853, Parks and Wildlife Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 43.853. RELEASE FROM CAPTIVITY. A person may not | ||
intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence | ||
release or allow the release from captivity of a nonindigenous | ||
snake [ |
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SECTION 3. Section 43.856, Parks and Wildlife Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) or (c), a person | ||
who violates this subchapter or a rule adopted under this | ||
subchapter commits an offense that is a Class C Parks and Wildlife | ||
Code misdemeanor. | ||
(c) If it is shown at the trial of the defendant for a | ||
violation of this subchapter or a rule adopted under this | ||
subchapter that the defendant has engaged in a commercial activity | ||
without holding a required permit and the defendant has been | ||
previously convicted of a violation of this subchapter or a rule | ||
adopted under this subchapter, on conviction the defendant shall be | ||
punished for a Class B Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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