TITLE: Relating to the voluntary removal of either a breeder deer's identification tag or button tag on liberation of the breeder deer onto a release site.

SUMMARY: Relating to the voluntary removal of either a breeder deer's identification tag or button tag on liberation of the breeder deer onto a release site.

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AN ACT relating to the voluntary removal of either a breeder deer's identification tag or button tag on liberation of the breeder deer onto a release site. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 43.3561, Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended by adding Subsection (l) to read as follows: (l) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, on the liberation onto a release site of a breeder deer to which an electronic identification device that is a button tag is attached as described by Subsection (f), a person may remove from the deer either the identification tag required by Subsection (b)(1) or the button tag, but not both tags. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.