Bill Text: TX HB3081 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of digital tags for the taking of certain animals.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB3081 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3081-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3081 |
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relating to the issuance of digital tags for the taking of certain | ||
animals. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 42, Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 42.0101 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 42.0101. DIGITAL TAGS; RULES. (a) The commission by | ||
rule may develop and implement a program for the issuance of digital | ||
tags for animals, including birds, to holders of hunting licenses | ||
authorizing the taking of those animals. | ||
(b) A program developed under this section may include: | ||
(1) providing for the issuance of digital tags to the | ||
holder of a hunting license; | ||
(2) allowing a person using a digital tag to create a | ||
digital record at the time of the taking of an animal that includes | ||
information required by the department; | ||
(3) requiring a person using a digital tag to create | ||
the digital record described by Subdivision (2) as soon as possible | ||
after the taking of the animal; and | ||
(4) requiring a person using a digital tag to retain in | ||
the person's possession documentation of the digital record | ||
described by Subdivision (2) at all times before the carcass is | ||
finally processed. | ||
(c) Unless the context requires otherwise, a reference | ||
under this code to a tag includes a digital tag issued under a | ||
program developed under this section. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3081 was passed by the House on May | ||
11, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3081 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
25, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |