Bill Text: TX HB1824 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the sale and taking of sand, gravel, marl, shell, and mudshell, including the use of funds collected from the sale of those materials and the taking of those materials from the San Jacinto River and its tributaries.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB1824 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1824-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the sale and taking of sand, gravel, marl, shell, and mudshell, including the use of funds collected from the sale of those materials and the taking of those materials from the San Jacinto River and its tributaries.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB1824 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1824-Comm_Sub.html
By: Murr (Senate Sponsor - Flores) | H.B. No. 1824 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 15, 2019; | ||
April 16, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Water & | ||
Rural Affairs; May 13, 2019, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 13, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to use of funds collected by the Parks and Wildlife | ||
Commission from the sale of certain materials. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 86.017, Parks and Wildlife Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 86.017. USE OF FUNDS. (a) Except as provided by | ||
Subsection (b), funds [ |
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sale of marl, sand, gravel, shell, and mudshell may be used for: | ||
(1) the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter; | ||
(2) [ |
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(3) [ |
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hatcheries; and | ||
(4) the enhancement, preservation, and restoration of | ||
fish habitats in rivers and streams. | ||
(b) No less than three-fourths of the proceeds from the sale | ||
of marl, sand, gravel, shell, and mudshell, after the payment of | ||
refunds, shall be used for: | ||
(1) the construction and maintenance of fish | ||
hatcheries; and | ||
(2) the enhancement, preservation, and restoration of | ||
fish habitats in rivers and streams. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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