Bill Text: TX SB1236 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 1236 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the use of certain weapons in or on the bed or bank of a navigable river or stream; providing a penalty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB1236 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1236-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Flores	S.B. No. 1236
	(In the Senate - Filed February 27, 2023; March 9, 2023,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Water, Agriculture &
	Rural Affairs; March 28, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable
	Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0;
	March 28, 2023, sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1236	By: Flores


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the use of certain weapons in or on the bed or bank of a
	navigable river or stream in certain counties.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. The heading to Chapter 284, Parks and Wildlife
	Code, is amended to read as follows:
	CHAPTER 284. CHILDRESS, COTTLE, DIMMIT, EDWARDS, FOARD, FRIO,
	HALL, KENEDY, LAMPASAS, LLANO, MAVERICK, MOTLEY, REAL, UVALDE, AND
	ZAVALA COUNTIES
	SECTION 2. The heading to Section 284.001, Parks and
	Wildlife Code, is amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 284.001. USE OF CERTAIN WEAPONS IN OR ON BED OR BANK OF
	NAVIGABLE RIVER OR STREAM [~~DISCHARGE OF FIREARM~~] PROHIBITED.
	SECTION 3. Section 284.001(b), Parks and Wildlife Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(b) This section applies only to a navigable river or stream
	located wholly or partly in Childress, Cottle, Dimmit, Edwards,
	Foard, Frio, Hall, Kenedy, Lampasas, Llano, Maverick, Motley, Real,
	Uvalde, or Zavala County.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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