Bill Text: TX HB1979 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to a bag limit exemption for certain participants in certain fishing tournaments in Chambers, Jefferson, Galveston, Hardin, Newton, and Orange Counties; authorizing a fee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-14 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1979 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1979-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to a bag limit exemption for certain participants in certain fishing tournaments in Chambers, Jefferson, Galveston, Hardin, Newton, and Orange Counties; authorizing a fee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-14 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1979 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1979-Introduced.html
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By: Phelan | H.B. No. 1979 |
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relating to a bag limit exemption for certain participants in | ||
certain fishing tournaments in Chambers, Jefferson, Galveston, | ||
Hardin, Newton, and Orange Counties. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Title 7, Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended by | ||
adding Chapter 290 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 290. CHAMBERS, JEFFERSON, GALVESTON, HARDIN, NEWTON, AND | ||
ORANGE COUNTIES | ||
Sec. 290.001. BAG LIMIT EXEMPTIONS FOR CERTAIN FISHING | ||
TOURNAMENTS. (a) In this section, "fishing tournament" has the | ||
meaning assigned by Section 66.023. | ||
(b) This section applies to a fishing tournament held on the | ||
southern stretches of the Sabine or Neches River, in the Gulf | ||
Intracoastal Waterway, or in the Gulf of Mexico as those bodies of | ||
water lie within or are adjacent to the following counties: | ||
(1) Chambers County; | ||
(2) Jefferson County; | ||
(3) Galveston County; | ||
(4) Hardin County; | ||
(5) Newton County; and | ||
(6) Orange County. | ||
(c) A participant in a fishing tournament who is part of a | ||
team affiliated with a college or high school may count toward the | ||
participant's bag limit for largemouth bass a fish that is smaller | ||
than the applicable size limit by not more than two inches. | ||
(d) A fish counted under this section must be released after | ||
weighing. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 290, Parks and Wildlife Code, as added by | ||
this Act, applies only to a fishing tournament held on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) The legal notice of the intention to | ||
introduce this Act, setting forth the general substance of this | ||
Act, has been published as provided by law, and the notice and a | ||
copy of this Act have been furnished to all persons, agencies, | ||
officials, or entities to which they are required to be furnished | ||
under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, and Chapter 313, | ||
Government Code. | ||
(b) The governor, one of the required recipients, has | ||
submitted the notice and Act to the Texas Commission on | ||
Environmental Quality. | ||
(c) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed | ||
its recommendations relating to this Act with the governor, the | ||
lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of | ||
representatives within the required time. | ||
(d) All requirements of the constitution and laws of this | ||
state and the rules and procedures of the legislature with respect | ||
to the notice, introduction, and passage of this Act are fulfilled | ||
and accomplished. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |