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  81R1383 BEF-D
 
  By: Miller of Erath H.B. No. 376
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the requirement that livestock at auction facilities
  located in or near a fever tick quarantine area be dipped.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 167.051, Agriculture Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
         (d)  The owner of a livestock auction facility located in or
  not more than 20 miles from the border of an area quarantined for
  the prevention or control of fever ticks shall dip each head of
  livestock before allowing the livestock to be moved from the
  premises of the auction facility.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.