Bill Text: TX HB2854 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to an authorization to trap, transport, and transplant certain white-tailed deer between certain sites.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-18 - Left pending in committee [HB2854 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB2854-Introduced.html

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85R9304 SLB-F
By: Paddie H.B. No. 2854

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an authorization to trap, transport, and transplant
certain white-tailed deer between certain sites.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 43.061, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
(h) The department may not prohibit the issuance of a trap,
transport, and transplant permit for breeder deer to be trapped
from a Class I release site, as defined by commission rule, and then
transported to and transplanted in another Class I release site.
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.