Bill Text: TX HB4644 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to an alert system for dangerous plant and wildlife pests and diseases administered by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB4644 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4644-Comm_Sub.html
By: Thimesch (Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst) | H.B. No. 4644 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2023; | ||
May 5, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Water, | ||
Agriculture & Rural Affairs; May 19, 2023, reported favorably by | ||
the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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PerryX | ||
HancockX | ||
BlancoX | ||
FloresX | ||
GutierrezX | ||
JohnsonX | ||
KolkhorstX | ||
SparksX | ||
SpringerX | ||
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relating to an alert system for dangerous plant and wildlife pests | ||
and diseases administered by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension | ||
Service. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter K, Chapter 88, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 88.823 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 88.823. PEST, DISEASE, AND QUARANTINE ALERT SYSTEM. | ||
(a) With the cooperation of the Department of Agriculture, the | ||
Texas Animal Health Commission, and the Parks and Wildlife | ||
Department, the extension service shall develop and implement a | ||
statewide Internet-based alert system for notifications related to | ||
wildlife and plant pests, diseases, and quarantines. The alert | ||
system must issue notifications for: | ||
(1) a confirmed case of a dangerous plant or wildlife | ||
pest or disease; | ||
(2) the establishment, modification, or removal of a | ||
pest or disease quarantine order; and | ||
(3) any compliance agreements entered into with the | ||
Department of Agriculture related to a pest or disease quarantine. | ||
(b) The alert system established under this section must: | ||
(1) issue notifications through e-mail; and | ||
(2) provide for enrollment in the alert system for | ||
delivery of a system notification. | ||
(c) The extension service shall enter into a memorandum of | ||
understanding with the Department of Agriculture, the Texas Animal | ||
Health Commission, and the Parks and Wildlife Department to ensure | ||
the extension service is able to issue a required notification | ||
under Subsection (a) within 72 hours of an applicable action by | ||
those agencies. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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