Bill Text: TX HB2038 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to certain offenses relating to disturbing or taking marl, sand, gravel, shell, or mudshell or disturbing oyster beds or fishing waters; increasing the criminal penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [HB2038 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2038-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2038 |
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relating to certain offenses relating to disturbing or taking marl, | ||
sand, gravel, shell, or mudshell or disturbing oyster beds or | ||
fishing waters; increasing the criminal penalty. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 86.022, Parks and Wildlife Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 86.022. PENALTY. (a) A person who violates Section | ||
86.002 [ |
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and Wildlife Code misdemeanor. | ||
(b) A person who violates Section 86.018 commits an offense | ||
that is a Class C Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor. | ||
SECTION 2. 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 | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date 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 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2038 was passed by the House on April | ||
24, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 7, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2038 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |