Bill Text: TX HB2218 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to creating a Class C menhaden boat license; imposing a fee; requiring a license.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2218 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2218-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2218 |
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relating to creating a Class C menhaden boat license; imposing a | ||
fee; requiring a license. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 47.008, Parks and Wildlife Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsections (a) and (d) and adding Subsection | ||
(a-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a) A boat may not be used for the purpose of catching, | ||
storing, and transporting menhaden in tidal water unless the owner | ||
of the boat has acquired: | ||
(1) a Class A menhaden boat license; or | ||
(2) a Class C menhaden boat license. | ||
(a-1) The holder of a Class C menhaden boat license may not | ||
take or harvest from the public water of the state more than 300 | ||
pounds a day of menhaden or an amount set by the department. | ||
(d) The commission shall set the license fee for each [ |
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(1) in an amount not less than $2,000 for a Class A | ||
menhaden boat license; | ||
(2) in an amount not to exceed $50 for a Class B | ||
menhaden boat license; and | ||
(3) at $420 for a Class C menhaden boat license. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 47.038, Parks and Wildlife Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), nets [ |
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purse seines used for catching menhaden may not be: | ||
(1) less than one and one-half inch stretched mesh, | ||
excluding the bag; | ||
(2) used in any bay, river, pass, or tributary, nor | ||
within one mile of any barrier, jetty, island, or pass, nor within | ||
one-half mile offshore in the Gulf of Mexico; or | ||
(3) used for the purpose of taking edible aquatic | ||
products for the purpose of barter, sale, or exchange. | ||
(a-1) The holder of a Class C menhaden boat license issued | ||
under Section 47.008 may use a cast net, as defined by the | ||
commission, to catch menhaden in any coastal bay, river, or | ||
tributary landward from the shoreline of the state along the coast | ||
of the Gulf of Mexico. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 47.008(c), Parks and Wildlife Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2218 was passed by the House on April | ||
12, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 2218 on May 24, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 137, Nays 3, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2218 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |