87R14556 KKR-D
By: Paul, Guerra, Price, et al. H.B. No. 652
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 652:
By: Klick C.S.H.B. No. 652
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to notice of an animal's exposure or possible exposure in
an animal shelter to certain infectious diseases.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 823, Health and Safety Code, is amended
by adding Section 823.004 to read as follows:
Sec. 823.004. REQUIRED NOTICE OF CERTAIN INFECTIOUS
DISEASES. (a) An animal shelter shall provide written,
electronic, or telephonic notice to a person who adopts an animal
from the shelter if the adopted animal was or may have been exposed
to a bodily fluid of another animal in the shelter that was
diagnosed with bordetella, distemper, kennel cough, leptospirosis,
parvovirus, or rabies and the shelter learns of the exposure during
the period:
(1) beginning on the 15th day before the date the
person adopts the animal; and
(2) ending on the 15th day after the date the person
adopts the animal.
(b) Section 823.009 does not apply to this section.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.