By: Perry S.B. No. 970
(Kacal)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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.