Bill Text: TX HB3569 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to activities conducted in connection with a state or federal disease control or eradication program for animals.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB3569 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3569-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3569 | ||
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| relating to activities conducted in connection with a state or | ||
| federal disease control or eradication program for animals. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 161, Agriculture Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 161.0417 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 161.0417. AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL FOR DISEASE CONTROL. | ||
| (a) A person, including a veterinarian, must be authorized by the | ||
| commission in order to engage in an activity that is part of a state | ||
| or federal disease control or eradication program for animals. | ||
| (b) The commission shall adopt rules for the authorization | ||
| of a person described by Subsection (a). | ||
| (c) The commission may, after reasonable notice, suspend or | ||
| revoke a person's authorization under Subsection (a) if the | ||
| commission determines that the person has substantially failed to | ||
| comply with this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter. | ||
| (d) A person is entitled to a hearing before the commission | ||
| or a hearing examiner appointed by the commission before the | ||
| commission may revoke the person's authorization under Subsection | ||
| (a). The commission shall make all final decisions to suspend or | ||
| revoke an authorization. | ||
| (e) This section does not affect the requirement for a | ||
| license or an exemption under Chapter 801, Occupations Code, to | ||
| practice veterinary medicine. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 161.0601(a), Agriculture Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The commission by rule may provide for the issuance, | ||
| including electronically, of a certificate of veterinary | ||
| inspection by a veterinarian to a person transporting livestock, | ||
| exotic livestock, domestic fowl, or exotic fowl. | ||
| SECTION 3. Not later than December 1, 2013, the Texas Animal | ||
| Health Commission shall adopt rules as required by Section | ||
| 161.0417, Agriculture Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3569 was passed by the House on May 9, | ||
| 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 5, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
| H.B. No. 3569 on May 24, 2013, and requested the appointment of a | ||
| conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
| houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
| on H.B. No. 3569 on May 26, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147, | ||
| Nays 0, 1 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3569 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays | ||
| 1; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
| committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
| that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
| 3569 on May 26, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
