By: Uresti S.B. No. 1750
(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2013; March 25, 2013, read
first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture, Rural Affairs,
and Homeland Security; April 25, 2013, reported adversely, with
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays
0; April 25, 2013, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1750 By: Uresti
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. Subsection (c), Section 161.041, 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, 2013.
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