Bill Text: TX HJR113 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the right to hunt and fish in accordance with state law.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 16-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-27 - No action taken in committee [HJR113 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HJR113-Introduced.html

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83R10059 SLB-D
By: Ashby H.J.R. No. 113

A JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the right to hunt
and fish in accordance with state law.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article I, Texas Constitution, is amended by
adding Section 34 to read as follows:
Sec. 34. (a) Every person has the right to hunt and fish in
accordance with the laws of this state.
(b) The right to hunt and fish does not:
(1) create a right to trespass on private property;
(2) diminish a right of another person; or
(3) diminish the duty of the state to manage wild
birds, fish, and game in a manner that ensures sustainable
populations of those animals.
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 5, 2013.
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
proposition: "The constitutional amendment recognizing the right
of a person to hunt and fish in accordance with state law."