Bill Text: TX HB646 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the use of an unmanned aircraft to locate and retrieve wounded or killed wildlife.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB646 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB646-Introduced.html
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| By: Vasut | H.B. No. 646 | |
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| relating to the use of an unmanned aircraft to locate and retrieve | ||
| wounded or killed wildlife. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 62, Parks and Wildlife | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 62.0115 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 62.0115. USE OF UNMANNED AIRCRAFT FOR LOCATING AND | ||
| RETRIEVING WOUNDED OR KILLED WILDLIFE. (a) To the extent permitted | ||
| by federal law, a person may use an unmanned aircraft to assist in | ||
| locating and retrieving wounded or killed wildlife on private land. | ||
| The unmanned aircraft must be operated in compliance with: | ||
| (1) each applicable Federal Aviation Administration | ||
| rule, restriction, or exemption; and | ||
| (2) all required Federal Aviation Administration | ||
| authorizations. | ||
| (b) The commission may adopt rules as necessary to | ||
| administer this section, except that the commission may not adopt a | ||
| rule that requires a person to hold an authorization issued by the | ||
| department or commission to use an unmanned aircraft as described | ||
| by Subsection (a). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
