Bill Text: TX HB508 | 2015-2016 | 84th 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; authorizing a fee.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-14 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB508 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB508-Comm_Sub.html

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84R21714 SLB-D
By: Raney, Keffer H.B. No. 508
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 508:
By: Murr C.S.H.B. No. 508

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an exemption for certain law enforcement and military
personnel from the requirement to complete a hunter education
program; authorizing a fee.
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) and adding Subsection (o) to
read as follows:
(n) The following persons are exempt from any requirement to
complete [the live firing portion of] a hunter education course
under this section:
(1) an honorably discharged veteran of the United
States armed forces who has achieved a basic rifle qualification or
higher[;] or
[(2)] a person who is on active duty as a member of the
United States armed [military] forces and has achieved a basic
rifle qualification or higher;
(2) [, the Texas Army National Guard, the Texas Air
National Guard, or the Texas State Guard] 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 and
has achieved a basic rifle qualification or higher; or
(3) a person who is serving or has previously served as
a municipal police officer, sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable,
deputy constable, marshal, deputy marshal, or member of the Texas
Rangers or the Texas Highway Patrol.
(o) In addition to any administrative fee collected under
Subsection (e), the commission may charge a reasonable fee to cover
the administrative costs of processing the application for a
license submitted by a person described by Subsection (n). Fees
collected under this subsection shall be deposited to the credit of
the game, fish, and water safety account.
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, 2015.