83R8696 BEF-F
By: Kleinschmidt H.B. No. 2525
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a criminal penalty for failure to handle certain
animals in accordance with rules of the Texas Animal Health
Commission.
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 to a disease listed in Subsection (a) if
the commission has notified the person that the animal was exposed
to the disease; or
(3) the movement of which is restricted under rules
adopted by the commission.
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, 2013.