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| 1 | 1 | 87R1147 KKR-D | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 276 | |
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| 5 | 5 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 6 | 6 | AN ACT | |
| 7 | 7 | relating to notice of an infectious disease occurring in an animal | |
| 8 | 8 | shelter and the quarantine of certain infectious animals at the | |
| 9 | 9 | shelter. | |
| 10 | 10 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 11 | 11 | SECTION 1. Section 823.003(c), Health and Safety Code, is | |
| 12 | 12 | amended to read as follows: | |
| 13 | 13 | (c) An animal shelter may not confine healthy animals with | |
| 14 | 14 | sick, injured, or diseased animals. An animal shelter shall | |
| 15 | 15 | quarantine an animal with an infectious disease until the animal is | |
| 16 | 16 | no longer infectious. | |
| 17 | 17 | SECTION 2. Chapter 823, Health and Safety Code, is amended | |
| 18 | 18 | by adding Section 823.004 to read as follows: | |
| 19 | 19 | Sec. 823.004. REQUIRED NOTICE OF ANIMALS WITH INFECTIOUS | |
| 20 | 20 | DISEASES. (a) An animal shelter shall provide oral or written | |
| 21 | 21 | notice to a person who leaves an animal with the shelter to receive | |
| 22 | 22 | veterinary care of: | |
| 23 | 23 | (1) any animal at the shelter with an infectious | |
| 24 | 24 | disease at the time the person's animal is brought to or picked up | |
| 25 | 25 | from the shelter; and | |
| 26 | 26 | (2) an animal at the shelter diagnosed with an | |
| 27 | 27 | infectious disease during the time the person's animal is under the | |
| 28 | 28 | care of the shelter. | |
| 29 | 29 | (b) An animal shelter shall provide the notice required | |
| 30 | 30 | under Subsection (a)(2) at the time the shelter learns that an | |
| 31 | 31 | animal has been diagnosed with an infectious disease. | |
| 32 | 32 | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |