Bill Text: TX HB716 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 716 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the taking of certain feral hogs and coyotes using a helicopter.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB716 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB716-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 716




	AN ACT
	relating to the taking of certain feral hogs and coyotes using a
	helicopter.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 43, Parks and Wildlife
	Code, is amended by adding Section 43.1075 to read as follows:
	Sec. 43.1075. USING HELICOPTERS TO TAKE CERTAIN ANIMALS. A
	qualified landowner or landowner's agent, as determined by
	commission rule, may contract to participate as a hunter or
	observer in using a helicopter to take depredating feral hogs or
	coyotes under the authority of a permit issued under this
	subchapter.
	SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date
	of this Act, the Parks and Wildlife Commission shall adopt rules as
	necessary to implement Section 43.1075, Parks and Wildlife Code, as
	added by this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 716 was passed by the House on April
	5, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 133, Nays 12, 2 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 716 on May 17, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 1, 1
	present, not voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House

	I certify that H.B. No. 716 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 11, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays
	2.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date

	__________________
	Governor