Bill Text: TX HB736 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the prosecution of the offense of cruelty to nonlivestock animals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-28 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HB736 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB736-Introduced.html
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By: Ordaz | H.B. No. 736 |
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relating to the prosecution of the offense of cruelty to | ||
nonlivestock animals. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 42.092(b), Penal Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) A person commits an offense if the person with criminal | ||
negligence [ |
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(1) tortures an animal or in a cruel manner kills or | ||
causes serious bodily injury to an animal; | ||
(2) without the owner's effective consent, kills, | ||
administers poison to, or causes serious bodily injury to an | ||
animal; | ||
(3) fails unreasonably to provide necessary food, | ||
water, care, or shelter for an animal in the person's custody; | ||
(4) abandons unreasonably an animal in the person's | ||
custody; | ||
(5) transports or confines an animal in a cruel | ||
manner; | ||
(6) without the owner's effective consent, causes | ||
bodily injury to an animal; | ||
(7) causes one animal to fight with another animal, if | ||
either animal is not a dog; | ||
(8) uses a live animal as a lure in dog race training | ||
or in dog coursing on a racetrack; or | ||
(9) seriously overworks an animal. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | ||
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the | ||
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred | ||
before that date. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |