Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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1	1	89R1742 BEE-D
2	2	By: Guillen H.B. No. 269
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to the creation of the Institute for Chronic Wasting
10	10	Disease Research.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 86, Education Code, is
13	13	amended by adding Section 86.83 to read as follows:
14	14	Sec. 86.83. INSTITUTE FOR CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE RESEARCH.
15	15	(a) In this section:
16	16	(1) "Breeder deer," "deer," and "deer breeder" have
17	17	the meanings assigned to those terms by Section 43.351, Parks and
18	18	Wildlife Code.
19	19	(2) "Chronic wasting disease" means a transmissible
20	20	spongiform encephalopathy infecting deer and related species and
21	21	their hybrids.
22	22	(3) "Institute" means the Institute for Chronic
23	23	Wasting Disease Research.
24	24	(b) The Institute for Chronic Wasting Disease Research is a
25	25	component of Texas A&M University.
26	26	(c) The institute is under the management and direction of
27	27	the board.
28	28	(d) The institute may employ personnel.
29	29	(e) The institute may accept a gift or grant from any public
30	30	or private source for the benefit of the institute.
31	31	(f) The institute shall, in partnership with deer breeders:
32	32	(1) study the progression of chronic wasting disease;
33	33	(2) analyze the genetic profiles of deer infected with
34	34	chronic wasting disease;
35	35	(3) develop:
36	36	(A) strategies to prevent chronic wasting
37	37	disease;
38	38	(B) efforts to mitigate transmission of chronic
39	39	wasting disease; and
40	40	(C) treatments for chronic wasting disease; and
41	41	(4) evaluate the implementation of strategies,
42	42	mitigation efforts, and treatments developed under Subdivision
43	43	(3), including for breeder deer.
44	44	(g) The institute may conduct an activity described by
45	45	Subsection (f) at a location:
46	46	(1) for which a deer breeder's permit was issued, at
47	47	the deer breeder's request; or
48	48	(2) operated by the institute.
49	49	(h) A deer breeder who makes available to the institute a
50	50	breeder deer for an activity described by Subsection (f) is
51	51	entitled to compensation from the institute for:
52	52	(1) a breeder deer on which the institute directly
53	53	conducts the activity, regardless of the location of the activity;
54	54	and
55	55	(2) any breeder deer at the deer breeder's permitted
56	56	location that the breeder is prohibited from selling, transferring,
57	57	or releasing because the institute conducts an activity described
58	58	by Subsection (f) at the location.
59	59	(i) Notwithstanding any other law, a deer breeder or the
60	60	institute may transfer a breeder deer from the location for which
61	61	the deer breeder's permit was issued to the institute to conduct an
62	62	activity described by Subsection (f).
63	63	SECTION 2. The Institute for Chronic Wasting Disease
64	64	Research is required to implement a provision of this Act only if
65	65	the legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose.
66	66	If the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that
67	67	purpose, the institute may, but is not required to, implement a
68	68	provision of this Act using other appropriations available for that
69	69	purpose.
70	70	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.