Bill Text: TX HB2311 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to an animal identification program.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-05-25 - Effective immediately [HB2311 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2311-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2311 |
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relating to an animal identification program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 161.056(a), (c), and (d), Agriculture | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) In order to provide for disease control and enhance the | ||
ability to trace disease-infected animals or animals that have been | ||
exposed to disease, the commission may develop and implement an | ||
animal identification program that is no more stringent than a | ||
federal animal disease traceability or other federal animal | ||
identification program [ |
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(c) The commission may adopt rules to require the use of | ||
official identification [ |
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identification program under Subsection (a) for animal disease | ||
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(d) The commission may by a two-thirds vote adopt rules to | ||
provide for an animal identification program more stringent than a | ||
program allowed by Subsection (a) only for control of a specific | ||
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SECTION 2. Sections 161.056(b), (g), and (h), Agriculture | ||
Code, are repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) The changes in law made by this Act to | ||
Section 161.056, Agriculture Code, do not supersede rules of the | ||
Texas Animal Health Commission implementing an animal | ||
identification program adopted under Section 161.056, Agriculture | ||
Code, prior to the amendment of that section by this Act. Those | ||
rules are continued in effect until amended or repealed as if this | ||
Act had not been enacted, and the former law is continued in effect | ||
for that purpose. | ||
(b) Rules adopted under Section 161.056, Agriculture Code, | ||
and amendments to existing rules adopted under Section 161.056, | ||
Agriculture Code, after the effective date of this Act must be made | ||
in conformity with the changes in law made by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. (a) The repeal by this Act of Section | ||
161.056(g), Agriculture Code, does not apply to an offense | ||
committed under that subsection before the effective date of this | ||
Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before | ||
the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs | ||
before that date. | ||
(b) An offense committed before the effective date of this | ||
Act is governed by Section 161.056(g), Agriculture Code, as it | ||
existed when the offense was committed, and the former law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. 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. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2311 was passed by the House on April | ||
26, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 102, Nays 32, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2311 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
13, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 2. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |