Bill Text: TX SB317 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the taking of feral hogs without a hunting license.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 6)

Status: (Passed) 2019-05-31 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB317 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB317-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Hughes, Flores, Perry S.B. No. 317
(In the Senate - Filed January 7, 2019; February 7, 2019,
read first time and referred to Committee on Water & Rural Affairs;
April 4, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 4, 2019,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 317 By: Kolkhorst

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the taking of feral hogs without a hunting license.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.002(c), Parks and Wildlife Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) A resident landowner or any person, with the consent of
the landowner, [the landowner's agent or lessee] may take feral
hogs [causing depredation] on the resident landowner's land without
having acquired a hunting license.
SECTION 2. Section 42.005(f), Parks and Wildlife Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(f) A nonresident landowner or any person, with the consent
of the landowner, [the landowner's agent or lessee] may take feral
hogs [causing depredation] on the nonresident landowner's land
without having acquired a hunting license required by this chapter.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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