By: Kacal (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) H.B. No. 1819
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2013;
April 30, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on
Agriculture, Rural Affairs, and Homeland Security; May 15, 2013,
reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0;
May 15, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to liability for injuring a trespassing sheep or goat.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 143.033, Agriculture Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 143.033. INJURY TO TRESPASSING ANIMAL. If a person
whose fence is insufficient under this subchapter maims, wounds, or
kills a head of cattle or a horse, mule, jack, [or] jennet, sheep,
or goat, or procures the maiming, wounding, or killing of one of
those animals, by any means, including a gun or a dog, the person is
liable to the owner of the animal for damages. This section does
not authorize a person to maim, wound, or kill any horse, mule,
jack, jennet, sheep, goat, or head of cattle of another person.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
143.033, Agriculture Code, applies only to a person who maims,
wounds, kills, or procures the maiming, wounding, or killing of a
sheep or goat on or after the effective date of this Act. A person
who maims, wounds, kills, or procures the maiming, wounding, or
killing of a sheep or goat before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect on the date the maiming, wounding,
killing, or procurement occurred, and the former law is continued
in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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