By: Hegar S.B. No. 1122
(In the Senate - Filed February 24, 2009; March 13, 2009,
read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
March 30, 2009, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 30, 2009,
sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1122 By: Eltife
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the requirement to keep records of game bird or animal
carcasses placed in a cold storage or processing facility.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subdivision (8), Section 42.001, Parks and
Wildlife Code, is amended to read as follows:
(8) "Quartering" means the processing of an animal
into not more than two hindquarters each having the leg bone (femur)
attached down to the knee [hock] and two front shoulders
[forequarters] each having the leg bones (scapula and humerus)
[portion to the knee] attached down to the elbow [shoulder blade].
The term also includes removal of two back straps [and trimmings
from the neck and rib cage].
SECTION 2. Subsections (a) and (f), Section 62.029, Parks
and Wildlife Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) In [As used in] this section:
(1) "Carcass" has the meaning assigned by Section
42.001.
(2) "Cold[, "cold] storage or processing facility" has
the meaning assigned by Section 42.001.
(3) "Hunting lease" has the meaning assigned by
Section 43.041.
(4) "Quartering" has the meaning assigned by Section
42.001.
(f) This section does not apply to a private, noncommercial,
family-owned cold storage or processing facility unless the
facility is located on a hunting lease.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and the
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of
this section, an offense was committed before the effective date of
this Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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