Bill Text: TX HB2009 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to an exemption for certain law enforcement and military personnel from the requirement to complete a hunter education program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective immediately [HB2009 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2009-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to an exemption for certain law enforcement and military personnel from the requirement to complete a hunter education program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective immediately [HB2009 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2009-Comm_Sub.html
By: Bonnen of Galveston, Bonnen of Brazoria | H.B. No. 2009 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Taylor of Galveston) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2017; | ||
May 10, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs; May 19, 2017, reported | ||
favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 19, 2017, sent | ||
to printer.) |
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relating to an exemption for certain law enforcement and military | ||
personnel from the requirement to complete a hunter education | ||
program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 62.014, Parks and Wildlife Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (n) to read as follows: | ||
(n) The following persons are exempt from any requirement to | ||
complete [ |
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under this section: | ||
(1) an honorably discharged veteran of the United | ||
States armed forces[ |
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United States armed [ |
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(2) a person who is on active duty or has previously | ||
served as a member of the Texas Army National Guard, the Texas Air | ||
National Guard, or the Texas State Guard; or | ||
(3) a person who is serving or has previously served as | ||
a peace officer described by Subdivision (1), (2), (3), or (4), | ||
Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure[ |
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SECTION 2. 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, 2017. | ||
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