Bill Text: TX SB1181 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to an interim study concerning this state's noncommercial hunting and fishing license systems.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-21 - Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar [SB1181 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1181-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Huffines, et al. | S.B. No. 1181 | |
| (Murr, Guillen) | ||
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| relating to an interim study concerning this state's noncommercial | ||
| hunting and fishing license systems. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. (a) The Parks and Wildlife Department shall | ||
| conduct a study of ways to simplify and consolidate the | ||
| department's noncommercial hunting and fishing license systems | ||
| into a single master license. The study must evaluate: | ||
| (1) consolidating all noncommercial hunting and | ||
| fishing licenses, tags, and stamps into a master license while | ||
| maintaining license exemptions in existence as of the effective | ||
| date of this Act; | ||
| (2) how to maintain wildlife management standards | ||
| under a master license system; | ||
| (3) the elimination of the hunter education course as | ||
| a separate requirement for hunting with a license or how to maintain | ||
| the hunter education program under a master license system without | ||
| unduly affecting persons who would need the license only for | ||
| fishing; and | ||
| (4) ways to increase ease of purchase and use for | ||
| individuals applying for a hunting or fishing license in this | ||
| state. | ||
| (b) Not later than November 12, 2017, the Parks and Wildlife | ||
| Department shall submit to the governor, the lieutenant governor, | ||
| the speaker of the house of representatives, and the chair of each | ||
| committee of the legislature that has primary jurisdiction over the | ||
| department a written report that summarizes the findings of the | ||
| study conducted under Subsection (a) of this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act expires December 31, 2017. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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. | ||
