Bill Text: TX SB360 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to methods used by an animal shelter to euthanize a dog or cat.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 9-4)

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-10 - Effective immediately [SB360 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB360-Introduced.html
  83R1499 KKR-F
 
  By: Watson S.B. No. 360
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to methods used by an animal shelter to euthanize a dog or
  cat.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 821.051, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended by amending Subdivisions (3) and (4) and adding Subdivision
  (5) to read as follows:
               (3)  "Board" means the executive commissioner [Texas
  Board of Health].
               (4)  "Department" means the [Texas] Department of State 
  Health Services.
               (5)  "Executive commissioner" means the executive
  commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
         SECTION 2.  Section 821.052(a), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A person may euthanize a dog or cat in the custody of an
  animal shelter only by administering sodium pentobarbital [or
  commercially compressed carbon monoxide].
         SECTION 3.  Section 821.054, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 821.054.  REQUIREMENTS FOR USE OF COMMERCIALLY
  COMPRESSED CARBON MONOXIDE. (a) The executive commissioner 
  [board] by rule shall establish:
               (1)  standards for a carbon monoxide chamber used to
  euthanize an animal to which Section 821.052(b) applies [in the
  custody of an animal shelter]; and
               (2)  requirements and procedures for administering
  commercially compressed carbon monoxide to euthanize an animal to
  which Section 821.052(b) applies [in the custody of an animal
  shelter].
         (b)  A person administering commercially compressed carbon
  monoxide to euthanize an animal to which Section 821.052(b) applies 
  [in the custody of an animal shelter]:
               (1)  may use only a carbon monoxide chamber that meets
  the standards established by department [board] rule; and
               (2)  may administer the commercially compressed carbon
  monoxide only in accordance with the requirements and procedures
  established by department [board] rule.
         SECTION 4.  Not later than December 1, 2013, the executive
  commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall
  adopt rules necessary to conform to Sections 821.052(a) and
  821.054, Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act.
         SECTION 5.  A person subject to Section 821.052(a), Health
  and Safety Code, as amended by this Act, is not required to comply
  with that subsection or any rules adopted under that subsection
  until January 1, 2014.
         SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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