Bill Text: TX HB3779 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to licensing of deer breeder operations; providing penalties.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
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. | ||
