By Patterson                                          H.B. No. 1168
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a review of the Texas tuberculosis research,
    1-3  eradication and control program and implementation of an improved
    1-4  program.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Chapter 162, Agriculture Code, is amended by
    1-7  adding Section 162.014 to read as follows:
    1-8        (a)  PURPOSES.  The purpose of this Act is to authorize the
    1-9  review of the current tuberculosis research, eradication and
   1-10  control programs for livestock, cervidae, exotics and other
   1-11  nontraditional farmed animals in Texas and implementation of a
   1-12  comprehensive plan that improves the present system.
   1-13        (b)  REVIEW OF CURRENT PROGRAMS.  A review of the present
   1-14  research, education, and control programs for tuberculosis will be
   1-15  conducted in the following college and agencies:
   1-16              (1)  Texas A&M University-College of Veterinary
   1-17  Medicine
   1-18              (2)  Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
   1-19              (3)  Texas Agricultural Extension Service
   1-20              (4)  Texas Animal Damage Control Service
   1-21              (5)  Texas Animal Health Commission
   1-22              (6)  Texas Department of Agriculture
   1-23              (7)  Texas Department of Health
    2-1              (8)  Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory
    2-2        (c)  IMPLEMENTATION OF PLAN.  Utilizing the results of the
    2-3  review authorized in subsection (b) of this section, a
    2-4  comprehensive plan for the control and eradication of tuberculosis
    2-5  shall be implemented as soon as practicable thereafter by the
    2-6  college and agencies listed in subsection (b) of this section.
    2-7        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.