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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.