Bill Text: TX HB4522 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an exemption for certain law enforcement and military personnel from the requirement to complete a hunter education program; authorizing a fee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-26 - Referred to Culture, Recreation & Tourism [HB4522 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4522-Introduced.html
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By: Raney | H.B. No. 4522 |
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relating to an exemption for certain law enforcement and military | ||
personnel from the requirement to complete a hunter education | ||
program; authorizing a fee. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 62.014, Parks and Wildlife Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (n) and adding Subsection (o) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(n) The following persons are exempt from any requirement to | ||
complete a hunter education course under this section: | ||
(1) an honorably discharged veteran of the United | ||
States armed forces who has achieved a basic rifle qualification or | ||
higher; | ||
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the United States armed forces and has achieved a basic rifle | ||
qualification or higher; | ||
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previously served as a member of the Texas Army National Guard, the | ||
Texas Air National Guard, or the Texas State Guard and has achieved | ||
a basic rifle qualification or higher; or | ||
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served as a: | ||
(A) municipal police officer; | ||
(B) sheriff or deputy sheriff; | ||
(C) constable or deputy constable; | ||
(D) marshal or deputy marshal; | ||
(E) member of the Texas Rangers; or | ||
(F) member of the Texas Highway Patrol [ |
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(o) In addition to any administrative fee collected under | ||
Subsection (e), the commission may charge a reasonable fee to cover | ||
the administrative costs of processing the application for a | ||
license submitted by a person described by Subsection (n). Fees | ||
collected under this subsection shall be deposited to the credit of | ||
the game, fish, and water safety account. | ||
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, 2019. |