Bill Text: TX HB3738 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the requirement that a person or laboratory that performs an official equine infectious anemia test be approved by the Texas Animal Health Commission.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB3738 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3738-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3738 | ||
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| relating to the requirement that a person or laboratory that | ||
| performs an official equine infectious anemia test be approved by | ||
| the Texas Animal Health Commission. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 161, Agriculture Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 161.0602 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 161.0602. PERSONS OR LABORATORIES PERFORMING EQUINE | ||
| INFECTIOUS ANEMIA TESTS. (a) The commission shall adopt rules that | ||
| require a person or laboratory to be approved by the commission if | ||
| the person or laboratory performs an official equine infectious | ||
| anemia test. | ||
| (b) Rules adopted under this section must include: | ||
| (1) approval requirements; | ||
| (2) provisions governing the issuance, renewal, and | ||
| revocation of an approval; | ||
| (3) inspection requirements; | ||
| (4) recordkeeping requirements; | ||
| (5) equine infectious anemia testing methods approved | ||
| by the commission; and | ||
| (6) proficiency standards. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2015, the Texas Animal | ||
| Health Commission shall adopt rules as required by Section | ||
| 161.0602, Agriculture Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3738 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 30, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3738 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
