Bill Text: TX SB1673 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to veterinary services performed on certain animals in the care of a releasing agency.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-04 - Co-author authorized [SB1673 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1673-Introduced.html
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By: LaMantia | S.B. No. 1673 |
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relating to veterinary services performed on certain animals in | ||
the care of a releasing agency. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 828.012(b), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) A veterinarian employed by a releasing agency may not | ||
perform nonemergency veterinary services other than sterilization | ||
on an animal that the releasing agency knows or should know has an | ||
owner. However, this subsection does not prevent a veterinarian | ||
employed by a releasing agency from performing veterinary services | ||
on an animal whose owner: | ||
(1) is an individual or family whose income is: | ||
(A) not more than 80 percent of the median income | ||
for the area in which the individual or family lives as determined | ||
using a source or methodology accepted under federal law or rule; or | ||
(B) less than the federal poverty level for the | ||
relevant household size; and | ||
(2) submits to the releasing agency evidence to | ||
establish the owner qualifies as an individual or family described | ||
by Subdivision (1) [ |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |