Bill Text: TX HB604 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a microchip scan of animals in the custody of an animal shelter or releasing agency, including an animal rescue organization.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 11-5)
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-26 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB604 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB604-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 604 | ||
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| relating to a microchip scan of animals in the custody of an animal | ||
| shelter or releasing agency, including an animal rescue | ||
| organization. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 823, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 823.004 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 823.004. MICROCHIP SCAN REQUIRED. As soon as | ||
| practicable after an animal is placed in the custody of an animal | ||
| shelter or a releasing agency as defined by Section 828.001, | ||
| including an animal rescue organization, the shelter, agency, or | ||
| organization shall scan the animal to determine whether a microchip | ||
| is implanted in the animal. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 604 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 14, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 2, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 604 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 13, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
