Texas’ blessedly short and infrequent legislative session (they meet only once every two years) is drawing to a close. Among the bills passed, two stick out that are worthy of mention on this blog.<\/p>\n
The first involves hunting licenses. HB-1718 allows people who are terminally ill, and have a desire to hunt in Texas before they die, to pay only the resident fee for a hunting license. Recently I had an interview with Hunt of a Lifetime published in Western Shooting Journal. Hunt of a Lifetime works similarly to the Make A Wish Foundation, but focuses on providing hunting and fishing trips with the Make A Wish Foundation refuses to provide. This bill will help charitable organizations such as Hunt of a Lifetime to replicas oris<\/a> better use their funds and spend less on hunting and fishing licenses.<\/p>\n The second bill involves sales taxes on precious metals. Currently, bullion such as gold, platinum, and silver, are sold as taxable goods at a rate of 6.25% plus any local city or county taxes. HB-78 recategorizes bullion as monetary instruments and not subject to sales taxes. This is a boon to those seeking stable forms of savings in the form of gold and silver, and may even kick-start the precious metals retail industry here in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Texas’ blessedly short and infrequent legislative session (they meet only once every two years) is drawing to a close. Among the bills passed, two stick out that are worthy of mention on this blog. The first involves hunting licenses. HB-1718 allows people who are terminally ill, and have a desire to hunt in Texas before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","tag-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}