By: Hughes (Senate Sponsor - Hegar) H.B. No. 3079
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 2009;
May 11, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on
Agriculture and Rural Affairs; May 19, 2009, reported favorably by
the following vote: Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 19, 2009, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the sale or purchase of certain parts of game animals or
birds.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 62.021(c), Parks and Wildlife Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) This section does not prohibit the sale of:
(1) a live game animal, a dead or live game bird, or
the feathers of a game bird if the sale is conducted under authority
of a license or permit issued under this code; or
(2) the following inedible parts:
(A) an inedible part, including the feathers,
bones, or feet, of a game bird other than a migratory game bird that
was lawfully taken or is lawfully possessed;
(B) the hair, hide, antlers, bones, horns, skull,
hooves, or sinew, as applicable, of a deer, pronghorn antelope,
desert bighorn sheep, collared peccary or javelina, red squirrel,
or gray squirrel; or
(C) the feathers of a migratory game bird in
accordance with federal law.
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply to any
sale of inedible parts of an animal or bird occurring on or after
the effective date of this Act, regardless of the date the parts
were acquired by the seller.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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