| |
| |
| |
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to the hunting or fishing license fee waiver for certain |
|
|
disabled veterans. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Section 42.012(c), Parks and Wildlife Code, is |
|
|
amended to read as follows: |
|
|
(c) "Qualified disabled veteran" means a veteran with a |
|
|
service connected disability, as defined by the United States |
|
|
Department of Veterans Affairs [Veterans' Administration], |
|
|
consisting of the loss of the use of a lower extremity or of a |
|
|
disability rating of 50 [60] percent or more and who is receiving |
|
|
compensation from the United States for the disability. |
|
|
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |
| |
| |
| |
______________________________ |
______________________________ |
| |
President of the Senate |
Speaker of the House |
| |
| |
|
|
I certify that H.B. No. 721 was passed by the House on May 4, |
|
|
2015, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 0, 2 present, not |
|
|
voting. |
|
|
|
|
|
______________________________ |
|
|
Chief Clerk of the House |
| |
| |
|
|
I certify that H.B. No. 721 was passed by the Senate on May |
|
|
21, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. |
|
|
|
|
|
______________________________ |
|
|
Secretary of the Senate |
|
|
APPROVED: _____________________ |
|
|
Date |
|
|
|
|
|
_____________________ |
|
|
Governor |