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      By Glaze                                        H.B. No. 1823

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the slaughter and processing of livestock for personal

 1-3     use.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 433.006, Health and Safety Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 433.006.  Personal Use Exemption.  (a)  The provisions

 1-8     of this chapter requiring inspection of the slaughter of livestock

 1-9     [animals] and the preparation of carcasses, parts of carcasses,

1-10     meat, and meat food products at establishments conducting those

1-11     operations do not apply to the slaughtering of livestock [animals

1-12     by a person on the person's own premises] or the preparation and

1-13     transportation in intrastate commerce of those articles if:

1-14                 (1)  the articles are exclusively for the personal use

1-15     of the owner of the livestock, a member of the owner's family, or a

1-16     nonpaying guest of the owner;

1-17                 (2)  the slaughter or preparation is conducted at the

1-18     owner's premises or at a processing establishment; and

1-19                 (3)  transportation is limited to moving the carcasses,

1-20     parts of carcasses, meat, and meat food products to and from the

1-21     owner's premises and a processing establishment [by the person

1-22     exclusively for use by the person or the person's household,

1-23     nonpaying guests, or employees].

1-24           (b)  The adulteration and misbranding provisions of this

 2-1     chapter, other than the requirement of an inspection legend, apply

 2-2     to [those] articles prepared by a processing establishment under

 2-3     Subsection (a).

 2-4           (c)  Nothing in this section shall be construed to grant a

 2-5     personal use exemption to an owner who intends to give carcasses,

 2-6     parts of carcasses, meat, or meat food products to any person other

 2-7     than those specified in Subsection (a)(1).

 2-8           SECTION 2.  Section 433.007, Health and Safety Code, is

 2-9     amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to

2-10     read as follows:

2-11           (b)  This chapter applies to a person, establishment, animal,

2-12     or article regulated under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21

2-13     U.S.C. Section 601 et seq.)  or the Federal Poultry Products

2-14     Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. Section 451 et seq.)  [only to the extent

2-15     provided by those Acts].

2-16           (c)  The department may adopt rules requiring a processing

2-17     establishment that processes animals under Section 433.006(a)(2) to

2-18     obtain a grant of custom exemption for that activity.

2-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-25     passage, and it is so enacted.