Bill Text: TX HB3779 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to licensing of deer breeder operations; providing penalties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-30 - Left pending in committee [HB3779 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3779-Introduced.html
By: Guillen | H.B. No. 3779 |
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relating to licensing of deer breeder operations; providing | ||
penalties. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 12, Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 12.5012 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 12.5012. REVOCATION, SUSPENSION, OR REFUSAL OF PERMIT | ||
RELATED TO THE CONTROL. BREEDING OR MANAGEMENT OF DEER. (a) In | ||
this subchapter "Permittee" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
12.501(a). | ||
(b) The director may suspend or revoke any permit related to | ||
the control, breeding, or management of deer in this state, or may | ||
refuse an application to renew a permit related to the control, | ||
breeding, or management of deer in this state, after a | ||
determination that a violation of trapping wild deer in Texas or of | ||
illegally importing whitetail or other deer from another state is | ||
made, or that the applicant or permittee has been convicted of an | ||
egregious violation involving other wildlife laws. | ||
Sec. 12.5013. APPEAL FROM REVOCATION, SUSPENSION, OR | ||
REFUSAL OF PERMIT. (a) Venue for an appeal from an order of the | ||
department refusing to renew a permit or revoking or suspending a | ||
permit to which this subchapter applies is a district court in: | ||
(1) the county where the permitted facility, if | ||
applicable, is located; or | ||
(2) the county where the permittee resides. | ||
(b) The appeal shall be by trial de novo. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 43, Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 43.352. PERMIT AUTHORIZED; DURATION OF PERMIT. (a) | ||
The Commission shall establish a training program and require that | ||
applicants for any permit related to the control, breeding, or | ||
management of deer in this state pass a test to qualify for such a | ||
permit. | ||
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person to possess live breeder deer in captivity. | ||
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that is valid for longer than one year. | ||
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply to all | ||
inspections, investigations or actions that take place on or after | ||
the effective date of this Act. An inspection, investigation or | ||
action taken before the effective date of this Act is governed by | ||
the law as it existed immediately before the effective date of this | ||
Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. |