Bill Text: TX SB1978 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to a voluntary contribution to help feed hungry Texans when a person applies for a hunting license.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective immediately [SB1978 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1978-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to a voluntary contribution to help feed hungry Texans when a person applies for a hunting license.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective immediately [SB1978 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1978-Introduced.html
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| By: Lucio | S.B. No. 1978 | |
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| relating to a voluntary contribution to help feed hungry Texans | ||
| when a person applies for a hunting license. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 42, Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 42.011 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 42.011. VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION TO HELP FEED HUNGRY | ||
| TEXANS. (a) When a person applies for a hunting license of any type | ||
| under this chapter, the person may contribute $1 or more to a | ||
| nonprofit organization, designated by the commission, whose | ||
| purposes include the administration of a statewide program that | ||
| provides hunters with a way to donate legally harvested deer to | ||
| local food assistance providers. The program must include the | ||
| recruitment of meat processors who, for a nominal fee to cover | ||
| processing costs, process and package the venison and contact the | ||
| food assistance providers to pick up the venison. | ||
| (b) The department shall: | ||
| (1) include space on each application for a hunting | ||
| license that allows a person applying for the license to indicate | ||
| the amount that the person is voluntarily contributing to the | ||
| nonprofit organization; and | ||
| (2) provide an opportunity for a person to contribute | ||
| to the nonprofit organization during the application process for a | ||
| hunting license on the department's Internet website. | ||
| (c) After deducting the department's administrative costs, | ||
| the department shall hold in trust the remainder of the amount a | ||
| person contributes under this section to the nonprofit | ||
| organization. Not later than November 1 of each year, the | ||
| department shall send the money held in trust to the nonprofit | ||
| organization. | ||
| (d) Money received by the nonprofit organization under this | ||
| section may be used only to administer, operate, support, and | ||
| promote the program described by Subsection (a). | ||
| (e) The nonprofit organization shall submit an annual | ||
| report to the legislature and the department that includes the | ||
| total dollar amount of contributions received by the organization | ||
| under this section. | ||
| (f) The commission may adopt rules to implement this | ||
| section, including rules related to processes for the selection, | ||
| inspection, and periodic review of the nonprofit organization. | ||
| SECTION 2. The commission shall designate a nonprofit | ||
| organization to receive the donations under Section 42.011, Parks | ||
| and Wildlife Code, as added by this Act, not later than September | ||
| 15, 2015. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2015. | ||
