H.B. No. 2213
AN ACT
relating to the slaughter and processing of exotic animals for
donation to a nonprofit food bank.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 433.006, Health and
Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 433.006. EXEMPTION FOR PERSONAL USE OR DONATION TO
NONPROFIT FOOD BANK [EXEMPTION].
SECTION 2. Section 433.006, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to
read as follows:
(a) The provisions of this chapter requiring inspection of
the slaughter of livestock and the preparation of carcasses, parts
of carcasses, meat, and meat food products at establishments
conducting those operations do not apply to the slaughtering of
livestock or the preparation and transportation in intrastate
commerce of those articles if:
(1) the articles are:
(A) livestock exclusively for personal use by the
owner of the livestock, a member of the owner's family, or a
nonpaying guest of the owner; or
(B) exotic animals exclusively for donation by a
hunter to a nonprofit food bank, as defined by Section 418.026(a),
Government Code;
(2) the slaughter or preparation is conducted at the
owner's premises, the premises where the hunter killed the exotic
animal, or at a processing establishment; and
(3) the transportation is limited to moving the
carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, and meat food products to and
from:
(A) the owner's premises and a processing
establishment; or
(B) the premises where the hunter killed the
exotic animal, the processing establishment, and the nonprofit food
bank.
(d) An article described by Subsection (a)(1)(B) may not be
combined with:
(1) a meat food product regulated under the Federal
Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. Section 601 et seq.); or
(2) a poultry product regulated under the federal
Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. Section 451 et seq.).
SECTION 3. Section 433.024(b), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) The department shall inspect each slaughtering
establishment whose primary business is the selling of livestock to
be slaughtered by the purchaser on premises owned or operated by the
seller. This subsection does not nullify the provisions in Section
433.006 relating to exemptions [personal use exemption].
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2213 was passed by the House on April
16, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 1, 2 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 2213 on May 23, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 3,
1 present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2213 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 19, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor