BILL ANALYSIS |
C.S.H.B. 2276 |
By: Elkins |
Urban Affairs |
Committee Report (Substituted) |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Interested parties explain that policies, laws, and regulations to help make animal shelters more humane, efficient, and effective and better stewards of taxpayer dollars cannot be accurately shaped without data identifying the details of how animal shelters are operating. In an effort to promote transparency, C.S.H.B. 2276 seeks to require animal shelters and releasing agencies to maintain certain records that are available to the public.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
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RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
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ANALYSIS
C.S.H.B. 2276 amends the Health and Safety Code, including provisions amended by S.B. 219, Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, to require each animal shelter or releasing agency operated in Texas to prepare monthly records regarding the intake and disposition of animals in the care of the shelter or agency. The bill sets out information to be included in the records and requires an animal shelter or releasing agency to maintain such records until at least the third anniversary of the date the record was prepared and to make the records available to the public.
C.S.H.B. 2276 replaces the authority of the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission to require each person operating an animal shelter to keep records of the date and disposition of animals in its custody, to maintain those records on the shelter's business premises, and to make the records available for inspection at reasonable times with the requirement that the executive commissioner require each person operating an animal shelter to keep records as required by the bill's provisions. The bill authorizes the board to require the animal shelter to maintain the records on the shelter's business premises and to make the records available for inspection at reasonable times.
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EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2015.
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COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE
While C.S.H.B. 2276 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following comparison is organized and formatted in a manner that indicates the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill and does not indicate differences relating to changes made by S.B. 219, Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, which became effective April 2, 2015.
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