Bill Text: TX HB2238 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to notice prohibiting hunting on or over certain submerged land.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-26 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB2238 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2238-Comm_Sub.html
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.) | ||
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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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