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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