AmmolandHouston, Tx –-(Ammoland.com)- On Tuesday, March 24 2015, the House Committee on Culture, Recreation and Tourism will consider
House Joint Resolution 61 sponsored by State Representative Trent Ashby (R-Lufkin). HJR 61 proposes an amendment to the Texas constitution that establishes an individual’s right to hunt, fish and harvest wildlife in in Texas.
It will ensure wildlife conservation and management decisions continue to be based on sound science in order to preserve Texas’ hunting heritage for generations to come and to protect that heritage against future attacks from well-funded, anti-hunting organizations.
Not only are hunting and fishing deep-rooted in our Texas culture, they have a major economic impact on the state. According to the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation, Texas hunters and anglers spend $4.1 billion annually and support 65,993 jobs across the state.
Please contact the following committee members immediately and urge them to support HJR 61 by Ashby:
Chairman Ryan Guillen
(D-Rio Grande City) 512-463-0416
Representative John Frullo
(R-Lubbock) 512-463-0676
Representative Lyle Larson
(R-San Antonio) 512-463-0646
Representative Andrew Murr
(R-Kerrville) 512-463-0536
Representative Wayne Smith
(R-Baytown) 512-463-0733
SJR22 By Creighton
As reported earlier, last week on a 4-1 vote, the Senate Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs Committee reported out Senate Joint Resolution 22. SJR22 by Senator Brandon Creighton (R-Conroe) is the Senate companion to HJR 61 by Ashby.
SJR 22 now moves to the full Senate for consideration as early as Tuesday, March 24th.
Please contact your state Senator ASAP and urge their support for SJR22.
Contact information for Senators can be found at this link.
We Need YOUR help to keep these bills moving!
And as always,
Keep the faith.
Alice Tripp
Legislative Director
TSRA
About:The Mission of the Texas State Rifle Association is to protect and defend the inalienable rights of the individual Texan to acquire, possess, transport, carry, transfer ownership and enjoy the right to lawful use of firearms for self preservation, for the defense of family and property and the common defense of the Republic and the individual liberties of the people. Visit: www.TSRA.com
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That’s a natural right.
Unless, of course, you live in an HOA or POA with “CC&R’s” that themselves violate State law. Texas law says an owner of a piece of property 10 acres or more can hunt (or fish) on the property…unless of course some dumbass POA (like the one we have out here in the Davis Mts., home of the RoT standoff of 1997) with its dumbass “covenant” “restriction that says NO owner, ten acres or more or no ten acres or more–we own almost 25 acres–can hunt on his or her land. That can and will change of course, esp. since tree-huggers are rare out here.