1-1     By:  Glaze (Senate Sponsor - Cain)                    H.B. No. 1823

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 1997;

 1-3     April 29, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Natural Resources; May 17, 1997, reported favorably by the

 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 17, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the slaughter and processing of livestock for personal

 1-9     use.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 433.006, Health and Safety Code, is

1-12     amended to read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 433.006.  Personal Use Exemption.  (a)  The provisions

1-14     of this chapter requiring inspection of the slaughter of livestock

1-15     [animals] and the preparation of carcasses, parts of carcasses,

1-16     meat, and meat food products at establishments conducting those

1-17     operations do not apply to the slaughtering of livestock [animals

1-18     by a person on the person's own premises,] or the preparation and

1-19     transportation in intrastate commerce of those articles if:

1-20                 (1)  the articles are exclusively for personal use by

1-21     the owner of the livestock, a member of the owner's family, or a

1-22     nonpaying guest of the owner;

1-23                 (2)  the slaughter or preparation is conducted at the

1-24     owner's premises or at a processing establishment; and

1-25                 (3)  the transportation is limited to moving the

1-26     carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, and meat food products to and

1-27     from the owner's premises and a processing establishment [by the

1-28     person exclusively for use by the person or the person's household,

1-29     nonpaying guests, or employees].

1-30           (b)  The adulteration and misbranding provisions of this

1-31     chapter, other than the requirement of an inspection legend, apply

1-32     to [those] articles prepared by a processing establishment under

1-33     Subsection (a).

1-34           (c)  This section does not grant a personal use exemption to

1-35     an owner who intends to give carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat,

1-36     or meat food products to any person other than a person listed in

1-37     Subsection (a)(1).

1-38           SECTION 2.  Section 433.007(b), Health and Safety Code, is

1-39     amended to read as follows:

1-40           (b)  This chapter applies to a person, establishment, animal,

1-41     or article regulated under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21

1-42     U.S.C. Section 601 et seq.)  or the Federal Poultry Products

1-43     Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. Section 451 et seq.)  [only to the extent

1-44     provided by those Acts].

1-45           SECTION 3.  Section 433.008, Health and Safety Code, is

1-46     amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

1-47           (c)  The department may adopt rules requiring a processing

1-48     establishment that processes livestock under Section 433.006(a)(2)

1-49     to obtain a grant of custom exemption for that activity.

1-50           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-51     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-52     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-53     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-54     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-55     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-56     passage, and it is so enacted.

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