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