Bill Text: TX SB1233 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to an animal identification program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-29 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB1233 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1233-Comm_Sub.html
By: Schwertner | S.B. No. 1233 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2013; March 13, 2013, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture, Rural Affairs, | ||
and Homeland Security; April 11, 2013, reported adversely, with | ||
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4, | ||
Nays 0; April 11, 2013, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1233 | By: Schwertner |
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relating to an animal identification program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subsections (a), (c), and (d), Section 161.056, | ||
Agriculture Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) In order to provide for disease control and enhance the | ||
ability to trace disease-infected animals or animals that have been | ||
exposed to disease, the commission may develop and implement an | ||
animal identification program that is no more stringent than a | ||
federal animal disease traceability or other federal animal | ||
identification program [ |
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(c) The commission may adopt rules to require the use of | ||
official identification [ |
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identification program under Subsection (a) for animal disease | ||
control or[ |
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(d) The commission may by a two-thirds vote adopt rules to | ||
provide for an animal identification program more stringent than a | ||
program allowed by Subsection (a) only for control of a specific | ||
animal disease or for animal emergency management [ |
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SECTION 2. Subsections (b), (g), and (h), Section 161.056, | ||
Agriculture Code, are repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) The changes in law made by this Act to | ||
Section 161.056, Agriculture Code, do not supersede rules of the | ||
Texas Animal Health Commission implementing an animal | ||
identification program adopted under Section 161.056, Agriculture | ||
Code, prior to the amendment of that section by this Act. Those | ||
rules are continued in effect until amended or repealed as if this | ||
Act had not been enacted, and the former law is continued in effect | ||
for that purpose. | ||
(b) Rules adopted under Section 161.056, Agriculture Code, | ||
and amendments to existing rules adopted under Section 161.056, | ||
Agriculture Code, after the effective date of this Act must be made | ||
in conformity with the changes in law made by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. (a) The repeal by this Act of Subsection (g), | ||
Section 161.056, Agriculture Code, does not apply to an offense | ||
committed under that subsection before the effective date of this | ||
Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before | ||
the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs | ||
before that date. | ||
(b) An offense committed before the effective date of this | ||
Act is governed by Subsection (g), Section 161.056, Agriculture | ||
Code, as it existed when the offense was committed, and the former | ||
law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
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