Bill Text: TX HB1510 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of the veterinarian-client-patient relationship.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-25 - Referred to Agriculture & Livestock [HB1510 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB1510-Introduced.html

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83R7082 MAW-F
By: Larson H.B. No. 1510

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the establishment of the veterinarian-client-patient
relationship.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 801.351, Occupations Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (a-1) and amending Subsection (b) to read as
follows:
(a-1) For purposes of Subsection (a)(1), an animal shelter
may be considered the caretaker of an animal regardless of whether
the shelter owns the animal.
(b) A veterinarian possesses sufficient knowledge of the
animal for purposes of Subsection (a)(2) if the veterinarian has
recently seen, or is personally acquainted with, the keeping and
care of the animal by:
(1) examining the animal; or
(2) making medically appropriate and timely visits to
the premises, including an animal shelter, where [on which] the
animal is kept.
SECTION 2. 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.