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1	1	By: Schwertner S.B. No. 1233
2	2	(In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2013; March 13, 2013, read
3	3	first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture, Rural Affairs,
4	4	and Homeland Security; April 11, 2013, reported adversely, with
5	5	favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4,
6	6	Nays 0; April 11, 2013, sent to printer.)
7	7	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1233 By: Schwertner
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10	10	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
11	11	AN ACT
12	12	relating to an animal identification program.
13	13	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
14	14	SECTION 1. Subsections (a), (c), and (d), Section 161.056,
15	15	Agriculture Code, are amended to read as follows:
16	16	(a) In order to provide for disease control and enhance the
17	17	ability to trace disease-infected animals or animals that have been
18	18	exposed to disease, the commission may develop and implement an
19	19	animal identification program that is no more stringent than a
20	20	federal animal disease traceability or other federal animal
21	21	identification program [consistent with the United States
22	22	Department of Agriculture's National Animal Identification
23	23	System].
24	24	(c) The commission may adopt rules to require the use of
25	25	official identification [numbers assigned] as part of the animal
26	26	identification program under Subsection (a) for animal disease
27	27	control or[,] animal emergency management[, and other commission
28	28	programs].
29	29	(d) The commission may by a two-thirds vote adopt rules to
30	30	provide for an animal identification program more stringent than a
31	31	program allowed by Subsection (a) only for control of a specific
32	32	animal disease or for animal emergency management [establish a date
33	33	by which all premises must be registered and may assess a
34	34	registration fee on all entities that register for a premises
35	35	identification number].
36	36	SECTION 2. Subsections (b), (g), and (h), Section 161.056,
37	37	Agriculture Code, are repealed.
38	38	SECTION 3. (a) The changes in law made by this Act to
39	39	Section 161.056, Agriculture Code, do not supersede rules of the
40	40	Texas Animal Health Commission implementing an animal
41	41	identification program adopted under Section 161.056, Agriculture
42	42	Code, prior to the amendment of that section by this Act. Those
43	43	rules are continued in effect until amended or repealed as if this
44	44	Act had not been enacted, and the former law is continued in effect
45	45	for that purpose.
46	46	(b) Rules adopted under Section 161.056, Agriculture Code,
47	47	and amendments to existing rules adopted under Section 161.056,
48	48	Agriculture Code, after the effective date of this Act must be made
49	49	in conformity with the changes in law made by this Act.
50	50	SECTION 4. (a) The repeal by this Act of Subsection (g),
51	51	Section 161.056, Agriculture Code, does not apply to an offense
52	52	committed under that subsection before the effective date of this
53	53	Act. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
54	54	the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
55	55	before that date.
56	56	(b) An offense committed before the effective date of this
57	57	Act is governed by Subsection (g), Section 161.056, Agriculture
58	58	Code, as it existed when the offense was committed, and the former
59	59	law is continued in effect for that purpose.
60	60	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
61	61	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
62	62	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
63	63	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
64	64	Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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