Bill Text: TX HB2434 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting the production or distribution of certain records of field trials or the process of hunting or catching wildlife; providing a civil remedy and creating an offense.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-26 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2434 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB2434-Introduced.html

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83R9297 SCL-F
By: King of Zavala H.B. No. 2434

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to prohibiting the production or distribution of certain
records of field trials or the process of hunting or catching
wildlife; providing a civil remedy and creating an offense.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 62.0125, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
amended by adding Subsections (e-1), (i), and (j) to read as
follows:
(e-1) No person may, without the landowner's consent:
(1) use any device to produce an audio, visual, or
audiovisual record of a person or a person's property lawfully
engaged in field trials or in any part of the process of hunting or
catching wildlife on the landowner's property; or
(2) distribute a record described by Subdivision (1).
(i) A landowner may bring a civil action against a person
who violates Subsection (e-1) to recover:
(1) an amount equal to not more than three times the
actual and consequential damages caused by the violation;
(2) court costs; and
(3) reasonable attorney's fees.
(j) The cause of action created by Subsection (i) is
cumulative of any other remedy provided by common law or statute.
SECTION 2. Section 62.0125(h), Parks and Wildlife Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 3. (a) The repeal by this Act of Section
62.0125(h), Parks and Wildlife Code, does not apply to an offense
committed under that section before the effective date of this Act.
For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before the
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
before that date.
(b) An offense committed before the effective date of this
Act is governed by Section 62.0125(h), Parks and Wildlife Code, as
it existed when the offense was committed, and the former law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.