By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 948
(In the Senate - Filed February 21, 2019; March 1, 2019,
read first time and referred to Committee on Water & Rural Affairs;
April 16, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 0; April 16, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to release sites for breeder deer.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter L, Chapter 43, Parks and Wildlife
Code, is amended by adding Section 43.361 to read as follows:
Sec. 43.361. RELEASE SITES. (a) A release site onto which
breeder deer are liberated must be surrounded by a fence not less
than seven feet in height that is capable of retaining deer at all
times under reasonable and ordinary circumstances.
(b) The owner of a release site is responsible for ensuring
that the fence surrounding the release site and infrastructure
associated with the fence are in a condition to retain deer as
provided by Subsection (a).
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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