Bill Text: TX HB1083 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to termination of the ownership interest in an animal impounded by an animal shelter.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-20 - Left pending in committee [HB1083 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1083-Introduced.html
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By: King of Parker | H.B. No. 1083 |
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relating to termination of the ownership interest in an animal | ||
impounded by an animal shelter. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 823.002, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 823.002. EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN COUNTIES, CLINICS, AND | ||
FACILITIES. Except as provided by Section 823.010, this [ |
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chapter does not apply to: | ||
(1) a county having a population of less than 75,000; | ||
(2) a veterinary medicine clinic; or | ||
(3) a livestock commission facility. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 823, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 823.010 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 823.010. TERMINATION OF OWNERSHIP INTEREST IN | ||
IMPOUNDED ANIMAL. (a) In this section, "animal rescue | ||
organization" means a nonprofit charitable organization | ||
established primarily to rescue animals and find adoptive homes for | ||
the animals. | ||
(b) Subject to Subsection (c), a person's ownership | ||
interest in an impounded animal held in an animal shelter operated | ||
in this state terminates on the date that: | ||
(1) another person adopts the animal from the shelter; | ||
or | ||
(2) the shelter transfers the animal to an animal | ||
rescue organization. | ||
(c) An animal shelter may offer an animal for adoption or | ||
transfer the animal as provided by Subsection (b)(2) only after the | ||
shelter has complied with any applicable holding period set in an | ||
ordinance or rule adopted by the governing body of the municipality | ||
or county in which the shelter is located as authorized by Section | ||
826.033. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 823.010, Health and Safety Code, as | ||
added by this Act, applies only to the termination of ownership | ||
interest in an animal adopted from an animal shelter or transferred | ||
from an animal shelter to an animal rescue organization on or after | ||
the effective date of this Act. An adoption or transfer that occurs | ||
before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in | ||
effect immediately before that date, and the former law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |