| 1 | | - | By: Krause (Senate Sponsor - Perry) H.B. No. 2238 |
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| 2 | | - | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2021; |
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| 3 | | - | May 10, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Water, |
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| 4 | | - | Agriculture & Rural Affairs; May 19, 2021, reported favorably by |
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| 5 | | - | the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2021, sent to |
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| 6 | | - | printer.) |
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| 7 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 1 | + | 87R4787 BEE-F |
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| 2 | + | By: Krause H.B. No. 2238 |
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| 10 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 11 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 12 | 7 | | relating to notice prohibiting hunting on or over certain submerged |
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| 13 | 8 | | land. |
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| 14 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 15 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Section 62.0061(a), Parks and Wildlife Code, is |
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| 16 | 11 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 17 | 12 | | (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person may not |
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| 18 | 13 | | hunt or take any wild animal or wild bird when the person is on or |
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| 19 | 14 | | over privately owned land that is: |
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| 20 | 15 | | (1) submerged under: |
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| 21 | 16 | | (A) public fresh water due to seasonal or |
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| 22 | 17 | | occasional innundation; or |
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| 23 | 18 | | (B) public salt water and located above the mean |
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| 24 | 19 | | high tide line of the Gulf of Mexico and its bays and estuaries; and |
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| 25 | 20 | | (2) conspicuously marked as privately owned by: |
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| 26 | 21 | | (A) a vertical purple line, at least eight inches |
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| 27 | 22 | | in length and one inch in width, painted on trees or posts on the |
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| 28 | 23 | | property so as to be readily visible to a person accessing the |
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| 29 | 24 | | property when the property is submerged by water; or |
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| 30 | 25 | | (B) a sign or signs that are substantially |
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| 31 | 26 | | similar to the following: |
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| 32 | 27 | | POSTED. PRIVATE PROPERTY. NO HUNTING. |
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| 33 | 28 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |
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