Bill Text: TX SB1673 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to veterinary services performed on certain animals in the care of a releasing agency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-04 - Co-author authorized [SB1673 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1673-Introduced.html

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88R9351 KKR-D
By: LaMantia S.B. No. 1673

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to veterinary services performed on certain animals in
the care of a releasing agency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 828.012(b), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) A veterinarian employed by a releasing agency may not
perform nonemergency veterinary services other than sterilization
on an animal that the releasing agency knows or should know has an
owner. However, this subsection does not prevent a veterinarian
employed by a releasing agency from performing veterinary services
on an animal whose owner:
(1) is an individual or family whose income is:
(A) not more than 80 percent of the median income
for the area in which the individual or family lives as determined
using a source or methodology accepted under federal law or rule; or
(B) less than the federal poverty level for the
relevant household size; and
(2) submits to the releasing agency evidence to
establish the owner qualifies as an individual or family described
by Subdivision (1) [is indigent].
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.