TITLE: Relating to requirements for certain licenses and permits issued by the Parks and Wildlife Department.

SUMMARY: Relating to requirements for certain licenses and permits issued by the Parks and Wildlife Department.

FULL TEXT:
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, 2021.