Amend CSSB 958 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____. Section 822.007, Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 822.007. LOCAL REGULATION OF DOGS. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), this [~~This~~] subchapter does not prohibit a municipality or county from adopting leash or registration requirements applicable to dogs.

(b) A volunteer search and rescue service dog that is a part of a volunteer search and rescue team is not considered a dangerous wild animal for purposes of this chapter.

(c) In this section, "volunteer search and rescue team" means an individual or an organized group of volunteers issued a written document by a law enforcement department that recognizes the individual or group as a person or group that trains dogs to assist in the location of a lost or missing person or for law enforcement purposes. A municipality may not adopt or enforce an ordinance, including a leash law, that restricts the ability of a volunteer search and rescue team to train a service dog for search and rescue or law enforcement purposes.