Bill Text: TX HB4544 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to municipal control of coyotes.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB4544 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4544-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 4544 | ||
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| relating to municipal control of coyotes. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 825, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subchapter D to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER D. CONTROL OF PREDATORY ANIMALS | ||
| Sec. 825.051. MUNICIPAL CONTROL OF COYOTES. A municipality | ||
| with a population density of more than 2,500 persons per square | ||
| mile may capture, relocate, or euthanize a coyote located within | ||
| the municipality or the municipality's extraterritorial | ||
| jurisdiction. The municipality may request assistance from Texas | ||
| Wildlife Services to capture, relocate, or euthanize a coyote. | ||
| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 4544 was passed by the House on May 3, | ||
| 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 4544 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
