Bill Text: TX SB1341 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of certain low-volume poultry processing establishments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-07 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1341 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1341-Introduced.html
86R12302 SRA-F | ||
By: Johnson | S.B. No. 1341 |
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relating to the regulation of certain low-volume poultry processing | ||
establishments. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 433.0245, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows: | ||
(e) For the purposes of this section, a low-volume livestock | ||
processing establishment: | ||
(1) includes a poultry processing establishment that | ||
processes more than 1,000 but not more than 20,000 poultry raised by | ||
the operator of the establishment in a calendar year; and | ||
(2) does not include a poultry processing | ||
establishment that processes 1,000 or fewer poultry raised by the | ||
operator of the establishment in a calendar year. | ||
(f) A poultry processing establishment described by | ||
Subsection (e)(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 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |