Bill Text: TX HB3738 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB3738 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3738-Comm_Sub.html
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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB3738 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3738-Comm_Sub.html
By: Cyrier (Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst) | H.B. No. 3738 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 2015; | ||
May 5, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Agriculture, Water, and Rural Affairs; May 12, 2015, reported | ||
favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 12, 2015, sent | ||
to printer.) |
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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. | ||
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