Bill Text: TX HB410 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of certain low-volume and other livestock processing establishments.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB410 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB410-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of certain low-volume and other livestock processing establishments.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB410 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB410-Comm_Sub.html
By: White, Bailes | H.B. No. 410 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Johnson, Flores, Perry) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 2019; | ||
April 17, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Health & | ||
Human Services; May 20, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; | ||
May 20, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 410 | By: Johnson |
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relating to the regulation of meat and other food products. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 433.003, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subdivisions (1-a), (2-a), (10-a), (11-a), | ||
(19-a), (23-a), and (26) to read as follows: | ||
(1-a) "Beef" means any edible portion of a formerly | ||
live and whole cattle carcass, not derived by synthetic or | ||
artificial means. | ||
(2-a) "Chicken" means any edible portion of a formerly | ||
live and whole chicken carcass, not derived by synthetic or | ||
artificial means. | ||
(10-a) "Lamb" means any edible portion of a formerly | ||
live and whole lamb carcass, not derived by synthetic or artificial | ||
means. | ||
(11-a) "Meat" means any edible portion of a livestock | ||
carcass that does not contain lab-grown, cell cultured, insect, or | ||
plant-based products. | ||
(19-a) "Pork" means any edible portion of a formerly | ||
live and whole swine carcass, not derived by synthetic or | ||
artificial means. | ||
(23-a) "Rabbit" means any edible portion of a formerly | ||
live and whole rabbit, not derived by synthetic or artificial | ||
means. | ||
(26) "Turkey" means any edible portion of a formerly | ||
live and whole turkey carcass, not derived by synthetic or | ||
artificial means. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 433.005, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) A food product is misbranded if: | ||
(1) the food product is misrepresented as harvested | ||
meat through the use of false or misleading advertising or | ||
labeling; or | ||
(2) any part of the food product's labeling includes | ||
the terms "meat," "beef," "chicken," "pork," "turkey," "lamb," | ||
"rabbit," or any common variation of those terms and the product | ||
does not contain the product described by the term listed on the | ||
label. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 433.0245, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsections (a-1), (e), and (f) and amending | ||
Subsections (b), (c), and (d) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) For purposes of this section, a low-volume livestock | ||
processing establishment: | ||
(1) includes an establishment that processes fewer | ||
than 10,000 domestic rabbits or more than 1,000 but fewer than | ||
10,000 poultry in a calendar year; and | ||
(2) does not include an establishment that processes | ||
1,000 or fewer poultry raised by the operator of the establishment | ||
in a calendar year. | ||
(b) Except as provided by Subsections (e) and (f), a [ |
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low-volume livestock processing establishment that is exempt from | ||
federal inspection shall register with the department in accordance | ||
with rules adopted by the executive commissioner for registration. | ||
(c) Except as provided by Subsections (e) and (f), a [ |
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low-volume livestock processing establishment that is exempt from | ||
federal inspection shall develop a sanitary operation procedures | ||
plan. | ||
(d) Except as provided by Subsection (f), if [ |
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contaminated livestock can be reasonably traced to a low-volume | ||
livestock processing establishment that is exempt from federal | ||
inspection, the department may request the attorney general or the | ||
district or county attorney in the jurisdiction where the facility | ||
is located to institute a civil suit to enjoin the operation of the | ||
establishment until the department determines that the | ||
establishment has been sanitized and is operating safely. | ||
(e) A low-volume livestock processing establishment that is | ||
exempt from federal inspection and processes fewer than 500 | ||
domestic rabbits in a calendar year is not required to comply with | ||
Subsection (b) or (c). | ||
(f) An establishment described by Subsection (a-1)(2): | ||
(1) is not subject to additional state regulation; and | ||
(2) may sell poultry products directly to: | ||
(A) consumers; and | ||
(B) restaurants that provide food for immediate | ||
human consumption. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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