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Texas House Bill HB652

Texas 2021 - 87th Regular

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1-By: Paul, Price, et al. H.B. No. 652
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2+ By: Paul, Guerra, Price, et al. H.B. No. 652
3+ Substitute the following for H.B. No. 652:
4+ By: Klick C.S.H.B. No. 652
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47 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
58 AN ACT
6- relating to notice of an animal's possible exposure in an animal
7- shelter to certain communicable or infectious diseases.
9+ relating to notice of an animal's exposure or possible exposure in
10+ an animal shelter to certain infectious diseases.
811 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
912 SECTION 1. Chapter 823, Health and Safety Code, is amended
1013 by adding Section 823.004 to read as follows:
11- Sec. 823.004. NOTICE OF CERTAIN COMMUNICABLE OR INFECTIOUS
12- DISEASES. (a) The department, in consultation with the State Board
13- of Veterinary Medical Examiners, shall develop and the department
14- and board shall each post on the agency's Internet website a model
15- electronic or written notice regarding an animal's possible
16- exposure to a communicable or infectious disease while the animal
17- is in an animal shelter. At a minimum the notice must:
18- (1) warn a person who adopts an animal from a shelter
19- about the animal's possible exposure to common communicable or
20- infectious diseases, the incubation period for those diseases, and
21- the need to monitor the animal for two weeks; and
22- (2) encourage the person to have a veterinarian
23- examine the adopted animal after adoption.
24- (b) An animal shelter may provide the notice developed under
25- Subsection (a) to a person at the time the person adopts an animal
26- from the shelter.
14+ Sec. 823.004. REQUIRED NOTICE OF CERTAIN INFECTIOUS
15+ DISEASES. (a) An animal shelter shall provide written,
16+ electronic, or telephonic notice to a person who adopts an animal
17+ from the shelter if the adopted animal was or may have been exposed
18+ to a bodily fluid of another animal in the shelter that was
19+ diagnosed with bordetella, distemper, kennel cough, leptospirosis,
20+ parvovirus, or rabies and the shelter learns of the exposure during
21+ the period:
22+ (1) beginning on the 15th day before the date the
23+ person adopts the animal; and
24+ (2) ending on the 15th day after the date the person
25+ adopts the animal.
26+ (b) Section 823.009 does not apply to this section.
2727 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.