Bill Text: TX SB1750 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to a criminal penalty for failure to handle certain animals in accordance with rules of the Texas Animal Health Commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-02 - Referred to Agriculture & Livestock [SB1750 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1750-Engrossed.html
By: Uresti | S.B. No. 1750 |
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relating to a criminal penalty for failure to handle certain | ||
animals in accordance with rules of the Texas Animal Health | ||
Commission. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 161.041, Agriculture | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly | ||
fails to handle, in accordance with rules adopted by the | ||
commission, livestock, exotic livestock, domestic fowl, or exotic | ||
fowl: | ||
(1) infected with a disease listed in Subsection (a); | ||
(2) exposed, as defined by commission rule, to a | ||
disease listed in Subsection (a) if the commission has notified the | ||
person that the animal was exposed to the disease; or | ||
(3) subject to a testing requirement due to a risk of | ||
exposure, as defined by commission rule, to a specific disease if | ||
the commission has notified the person of the testing requirement. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | ||
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the | ||
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred | ||
before that date. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |