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POLL on HB 1788 and Herp Stamp Usage in TEXAS

If HB 1788 were to pass in Texas, I would:

  • 1) Not purchase a herp stamp.

    Votes: 5 4.4%

  • 2) Purchase a herp stamp and I am a non resident.

    Votes: 74 64.9%

  • 3) Purchase a herp stamp and I am a resident.

    Votes: 35 30.7%
  • Total voters
    114
Hell yeah....why not purchase a stamp if they are going to change the knee jerk reaction law they created in the first place.

I buy stamps for salt water fish, deer, turkey and ducks....why not herps?
 
Not only would I buy a stamp, I'd drive down from Ohio to make good use of it. I'd love the chance to see some west Texas herps in the wild. I usually make 2-3 trips a year to different states to do some herping but have never gotten the chance at Texas and then the laws were changed. I'd have to line that trip up a few times over the next few years.
 
Most in my 3 County region have called BS on this since its inception
We have 9 Officers that cover alot of area and have little concern for
a few hundred dirt road night cruisers.
It has never been a problem around here,its a tradition to many and the Officers agree
No Smoke,No Fire!

We plan to continue our limited trips into the nights
 
The meeting at the Capitol yesterday seemed to go well.

Hopefully they will vote yea next week and then some minor changes can be amended.
 
can some one point me to the law that bans road herping. i'm going to be moving back to texas shortly (i'm a herpetologist) and i'd like to familiarize myself with such laws i'll be in brownsville
 
"Texas Codes > Parks and Wildlife Code > Title 5 > Subtitle B > Chapter 62 > Subchapter A > § 62.0031 - Hunting From Public Road Or Right-Of-Way Prohibited

HUNTING FROM PUBLIC ROAD OR RIGHT-OF-WAY PROHIBITED. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person may not hunt a wild animal or bird when the person is on a public road or right-of-way.
(b) This section does not apply to the trapping of a raptor for educational or sporting purposes as provided by Chapter 49.
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1159, Sec. 44, eff. June 15, 2007."


HB1788 did pass the House and Senate and is moving forward.

There have been some amendments such as not allowing collecting from the paved road but the shoulder and right of way only. Spotlighting from a motor vehicle is not allowed. The cost of the stamp will be $10.

It still needs to be signed by the Governor.
 
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