1-1 By: Brimer (Senate Sponsor - Harris of Tarrant) H.B. No. 395
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 13, 1993;
1-3 April 14, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Natural Resources; May 7, 1993, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 7, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Sims x
1-9 Truan x
1-10 Armbrister x
1-11 Barrientos x
1-12 Bivins x
1-13 Brown x
1-14 Carriker x
1-15 Lucio x
1-16 Montford x
1-17 Ratliff x
1-18 Shelley x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to regulating certain slaughterers; providing penalties.
1-22 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-23 SECTION 1. Section 148.001, Agriculture Code, is amended to
1-24 read as follows:
1-25 Sec. 148.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "slaughterer"
1-26 means a person engaged in the business of:
1-27 (1) slaughtering livestock for profit; or
1-28 (2) selling livestock, as a primary business, to be
1-29 slaughtered by the purchaser on premises owned or operated by the
1-30 seller, in a county with a population of one million or more.
1-31 SECTION 2. Section 433.024, Health and Safety Code, is
1-32 amended to read as follows:
1-33 Sec. 433.024. Inspection of Processing and Slaughtering
1-34 Establishments. (a) The commissioner, through sanitation experts
1-35 and other competent inspectors, shall inspect each processing
1-36 establishment in which livestock is slaughtered and meat and meat
1-37 food products of the livestock are prepared solely for intrastate
1-38 commerce as necessary to obtain information about the
1-39 establishment's sanitary conditions.
1-40 (b) The commissioner, through sanitation experts and other
1-41 competent inspectors, shall inspect each slaughtering establishment
1-42 whose primary business is the selling of livestock to be
1-43 slaughtered by the purchaser on premises owned or operated by the
1-44 seller. This subsection does not nullify the provisions in Section
1-45 433.006 of the Health and Safety Code relating to personal use
1-46 exemption.
1-47 (c) <(b)> The commissioner shall adopt rules governing
1-48 sanitation maintenance in <a> processing and slaughtering
1-49 establishments as defined by this section <establishment>.
1-50 (d) <(c)> If sanitary conditions of a processing
1-51 establishment render meat or meat food products adulterated, the
1-52 commissioner shall prohibit the meat or meat food products from
1-53 being labeled, marked, stamped, or tagged as "Texas inspected and
1-54 passed."
1-55 SECTION 3. An offense committed before the effective date of
1-56 this Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was
1-57 committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
1-58 purpose.
1-59 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-60 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-61 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-62 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-63 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-64 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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1-66 Austin,
1-67 Texas
1-68 May 7, 1993
2-1 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-2 President of the Senate
2-3 Sir:
2-4 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred H.B.
2-5 No. 395, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
2-6 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-7 pass and be printed.
2-8 Sims,
2-9 Chairman
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2-11 WITNESSES
2-12 FOR AGAINST ON
2-13 ___________________________________________________________________
2-14 Name: Donald E. McCrary x
2-15 Representing: Self
2-16 City: Kennedale Tx
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2-18 Name: Peggy Jean Prater x
2-19 Representing: Self
2-20 City: Kennedale Tx
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