By Farrar                                             H.B. No. 1867
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the assessment of costs or fees by a county or
 1-3     municipality related to the seizure, acceptance, impoundment, or
 1-4     destruction of a dangerous dog.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 822.042(d), Health and Safety Code, is
 1-7     amended to read as follows:
 1-8           (d)  The owner shall pay any cost or fee assessed by the
 1-9     municipality or county related to the seizure, impoundment, or
1-10     [and] destruction of the dog or, if it is delivered or surrendered
1-11     by the owner, related to the acceptance of the dog. The governing
1-12     body of the municipality or county may prescribe the amount of the
1-13     fees.
1-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.