Bill Text: TX SB552 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to an annual report regarding certain dog bites.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-23 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB552 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB552-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Kolkhorst | S.B. No. 552 | |
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| relating to an annual report regarding certain dog bites. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 822, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 822.008 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 822.008. ANNUAL REPORT OF DOG BITES. Each animal | ||
| control authority shall submit to the Department of State Health | ||
| Services in the form and manner prescribed by the department an | ||
| annual report regarding dog bites that occurred in the preceding | ||
| year in the authority's jurisdiction and resulted in bodily injury, | ||
| serious bodily injury, or death of a person. The report must | ||
| include the following information for each dog bite: | ||
| (1) the date of the dog bite; | ||
| (2) the county or municipality in which the dog bite | ||
| occurred; | ||
| (3) the age of the victim of the dog bite; | ||
| (4) the breed of the dog that caused the dog bite; | ||
| (5) whether the dog bite resulted in bodily injury, | ||
| serious bodily injury, or death; | ||
| (6) whether the victim as a result of the injuries | ||
| sustained received: | ||
| (A) emergency medical treatment at an emergency | ||
| medical care facility or hospital emergency room; or | ||
| (B) inpatient treatment at a hospital; | ||
| (7) whether the dog was previously determined to be a | ||
| dangerous dog under Subchapter D; | ||
| (8) whether the dog had previously bitten a person, | ||
| resulting in bodily injury, serious bodily injury, or death; and | ||
| (9) whether as a result of the dog bite a person was | ||
| charged with a criminal offense under this chapter or any other law. | ||
| SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 822.008, Health and | ||
| Safety Code, as added by this Act, an animal control authority is | ||
| not required to submit a report until December 1, 2022. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
