74R4396 DLF-D
By Gutierrez H.B. No. 669
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 669:
By Rodriguez C.S.H.B. No. 669
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the quarantine of rabid animals.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 826.042, Health and Safety Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 826.042. QUARANTINE OF ANIMALS. (a) The board shall
1-7 adopt rules governing the testing of quarantined animals and the
1-8 procedure for and method of quarantine.
1-9 (b) The local health authority shall quarantine or test in
1-10 accordance with board rules any animal that the local health
1-11 authority has probable cause to believe may be rabid or may have
1-12 exposed a person to rabies.
1-13 (c) An owner shall submit for quarantine an animal that:
1-14 (1) is reported to be rabid or to have exposed an
1-15 individual to rabies; or
1-16 (2) the owner knows or suspects is rabid or has <to
1-17 have> exposed an individual to rabies.
1-18 (d) A veterinarian shall submit for quarantine an animal
1-19 that:
1-20 (1) is in the possession of the veterinarian; and
1-21 (2) the veterinarian knows or suspects is rabid or has
1-22 exposed an individual to rabies.
1-23 (e) The owner or veterinarian shall submit the animal to the
1-24 local health authority of the county or municipality in which the
2-1 exposure occurs.
2-2 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.