Bill Text: TX SB360 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.html
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-Comm_Sub.html
By: Watson | S.B. No. 360 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 4, 2013; February 11, 2013, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human | ||
Services; March 20, 2013, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 20, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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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 [ |
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(4) "Department" means the [ |
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Health Services. | ||
(5) "Executive commissioner" means the executive | ||
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission. | ||
SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 821.052, 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 [ |
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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 | ||
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(1) standards for a carbon monoxide chamber used to | ||
euthanize an animal to which Section 821.052(b) applies [ |
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(2) requirements and procedures for administering | ||
commercially compressed carbon monoxide to euthanize an animal to | ||
which Section 821.052(b) applies [ |
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(b) A person administering commercially compressed carbon | ||
monoxide to euthanize an animal to which Section 821.052(b) applies | ||
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(1) may use only a carbon monoxide chamber that meets | ||
the standards established by department [ |
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(2) may administer the commercially compressed carbon | ||
monoxide only in accordance with the requirements and procedures | ||
established by department [ |
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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 Subsection (a), Section 821.052 | ||
and Section 821.054, Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
SECTION 5. A person subject to Subsection (a), Section | ||
821.052, 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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