Bill Text: TX HB716 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the taking of certain feral hogs and coyotes using a helicopter.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB716 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB716-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the taking of certain feral hogs and coyotes using a helicopter.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB716 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB716-Comm_Sub.html
By: Miller of Erath, Christian, Deshotel(Senate Sponsor - Fraser) | H.B. No. 716 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Fraser) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 6, 2011; | ||
April 14, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Natural Resources; May 4, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; | ||
May 4, 2011, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 716 | By: Fraser |
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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. | ||
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