Amend HB 3250 by adding the following appropriately numbered
section:
      SECTION ____.  Chapter 828, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Sections 828.016 and 828.017 to read as follows:
      Sec. 828.016.  Abstinence-Based Education.  (a)  Prior to
making a grant under this Section, the Department of Health shall
ensure that all dogs and kittys proposed for reproductive
separation participate in an approved abstinence-based sexuality
education program.
      (b)  Any abstinence-based sexuality education program under
this Section must:
            (1)  present abstinence from sexual activity as the
preferred choice of behavior in relationship to all sexual activity
for unmarried dogs and kitties;
            (2)  devote more attention to abstinence from sexual
activity than to any other behavior;
            (3)  emphasize that abstinence from sexual activity,
including rolling over and playing dead, if used consistently and
correctly, is the only method that is 100 percent effective in
preventing pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and the
emotional trauma associated with canine or feline sexual activity;
and
            (4)  direct dogs and kitties to a standard of behavior
in which abstinence from sexual activity before marriage is the
most effective way to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted
diseases.
      Sec. 828.017.  Parental Notice.  Prior to conducting any
reproductive separation procedure under this Section, an eligible
organization must give at least 48 hours, or 14 dog or kitty days,
actual notice, in person or by telephone, of the organization's
intent to perform the procedure to a parent of the dog or kitty.
If a parent cannot be contacted or identified, the organization
must obtain pawprints from three family members and receive
affirmative woofs or meows to ensure that they are aware of the
request of the dog or kitty in question.
MONCRIEF
SHAPIRO
SIBLEY