88R7055 BEE-D
By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 810
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requirements for certain licenses and permits issued by
the Parks and Wildlife Department.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Parks and Wildlife
Code, is amended by adding Section 61.061 to read as follows:
Sec. 61.061. AFFIDAVIT REQUIRED. A proclamation of the
commission under this chapter must require that an applicant for
the issuance, reissuance, or renewal of a license, permit, or other
authorization to possess wildlife resources submit with the
application an affidavit made before an officer qualified to
administer oaths affirming that the person has read and understands
each provision of this code and rule adopted under this code
relating to the administration of drugs to the wildlife resource to
which the license, permit, or other authorization applies.
SECTION 2. This Act applies only to an application for the
issuance, reissuance, or renewal of a license, permit, or other
authorization submitted on or after the effective date of this Act.
An application for the issuance, reissuance, or renewal of a
license, permit, or other authorization submitted before the
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
date the application was submitted, and the former law is continued
in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.