Bill Text: TX SB1764 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the use of certain weapons in or on the bed or bank of a navigable river or stream.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-04 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB1764 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1764-Comm_Sub.html
By: Perry, Flores | S.B. No. 1764 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2023; March 20, 2023, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Water, Agriculture & Rural | ||
Affairs; March 28, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; | ||
March 28, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1764 | By: Perry |
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relating to the use of certain weapons in or on the bed or bank of a | ||
navigable river or stream. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 284.001, Parks and Wildlife Code, is | ||
transferred to Subchapter B, Chapter 1, Parks and Wildlife Code, | ||
redesignated as Section 1.014, Parks and Wildlife Code, and amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1.014 [ |
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BANK OF NAVIGABLE RIVER OR STREAM [ |
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PROHIBITED. (a) In this section: | ||
(1) "Archery equipment" means a longbow, recurved bow, | ||
compound bow, or crossbow. | ||
(2) "Firearm" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
62.014. | ||
(3) "Navigable river or stream" has the meaning | ||
assigned by Section 90.001. | ||
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may not discharge a firearm or shoot an arrow from any kind of bow | ||
if: | ||
(1) the person is located in or on the bed or bank of a | ||
navigable river or stream at the time the firearm is discharged or | ||
the arrow is shot from the bow; or | ||
(2) any portion of the ammunition discharged or arrow | ||
shot could physically contact the bed or bank of a navigable river | ||
or stream. | ||
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(1) an individual acting in the scope of the | ||
individual's duties as a peace officer or department employee; | ||
(2) the discharge of a shotgun loaded with ammunition | ||
that releases only shot when discharged; or | ||
(3) an individual engaging in fishing using archery | ||
equipment, if the individual is in compliance with Subsection (e) | ||
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license holder to carry a handgun under the authority of Subchapter | ||
H, Chapter 411, Government Code. | ||
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equipment may not possess while fishing: | ||
(1) an arrow equipped with fletching of any kind; | ||
(2) an unbarbed arrow; or | ||
(3) a bow that is not equipped with a reel and line. | ||
(f) A person who violates this section commits an offense | ||
that is a Class C Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor. | ||
(g) If conduct that constitutes an offense under this | ||
section also constitutes an offense under Title 7, the actor may be | ||
prosecuted under this section or the other law, but not both. | ||
SECTION 2. The heading to Chapter 284, Parks and Wildlife | ||
Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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