Bill Text: TX HB550 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to sound-producing devices on vessels.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-24 - Returned from the House for further action [HB550 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB550-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Guillen (Senate Sponsor - Perry) | H.B. No. 550 | |
| (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2017; | ||
| May 17, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
| Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs; May 19, 2017, reported | ||
| favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0, 1 present not | ||
| voting; May 19, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to sound-producing devices on vessels. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 31.065, Parks and Wildlife Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 31.065. SOUND-PRODUCING DEVICES. A vessel [ |
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| must have an efficient whistle or other sound-producing device if | ||
| one is required by the commandant of the Coast Guard. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 31.073(a), Parks and Wildlife Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) All canoes, kayaks, punts, rowboats, sailboats, rubber | ||
| rafts, and other paddle craft when paddled, poled, oared, or | ||
| windblown are exempt from all safety equipment requirements except | ||
| each vessel must have the following: | ||
| (1) one Coast Guard approved wearable personal | ||
| flotation device for each person aboard; [ |
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| (2) the lights prescribed by the commandant of the | ||
| Coast Guard for vessels and required under Section 31.064; and | ||
| (3) the sound-producing device prescribed by the | ||
| commandant of the Coast Guard for vessels and required under | ||
| Section 31.065. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 31.127(a), Parks and Wildlife Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) A person who violates or fails to comply with any | ||
| provision of this chapter other than Section 31.073(a)(3), or who | ||
| violates or fails to comply with a proclamation of the commission | ||
| entered under this chapter or a city ordinance or order of a | ||
| commissioners court or a political subdivision of the state made or | ||
| entered under this chapter, commits an offense that is a Class C | ||
| Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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, 2017. | ||
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