Bill Text: TX SB970 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 970 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the failure to handle certain animals in accordance with rules of the Texas Animal Health Commission; amending provisions subject to a criminal penalty.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Passed) 2015-05-22 - Effective on 9/1/15 [SB970 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-SB970-Enrolled.html



	S.B. No. 970




	AN ACT
	relating to the failure to handle certain animals in accordance
	with rules of the Texas Animal Health Commission; amending
	provisions subject to a criminal penalty.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 161.041(c), Agriculture Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(c) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly
	fails to handle, in accordance with rules adopted by the
	commission, livestock, exotic livestock, domestic fowl, or exotic
	fowl:
	(1) infected with a disease listed in Subsection (a);
	(2) exposed, as defined by commission rule, to a
	disease listed in Subsection (a) if the commission has notified the
	person that the animal was exposed to the disease; or
	(3) subject to a testing requirement due to a risk of
	exposure, as defined by commission rule, to a specific disease if
	the commission has notified the person of the testing requirement.
	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, 2015.





	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 970 passed the Senate on
	April 9, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 970 passed the House on
	May 8, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 132, Nays 0, two present
	not voting.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House



	Approved:

	______________________________
	Date


	______________________________
	Governor