By: Perry  S.B. No. 970
         (In the Senate - Filed March 5, 2015; March 10, 2015, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture, Water, and
  Rural Affairs; March 30, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable
  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0;
  March 30, 2015, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 970 By:  Perry
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the failure to handle certain animals in accordance
  with rules of the Texas Animal Health Commission; amending
  provisions subject to a criminal penalty.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 161.041(c), Agriculture Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (c)  A person commits an offense if the person knowingly
  fails to handle, in accordance with rules adopted by the
  commission, livestock, exotic livestock, domestic fowl, or exotic
  fowl:
               (1)  infected with a disease listed in Subsection (a);
               (2)  exposed, as defined by commission rule, to a
  disease listed in Subsection (a) if the commission has notified the
  person that the animal was exposed to the disease; or
               (3)  subject to a testing requirement due to a risk of
  exposure, as defined by commission rule, to a specific disease if
  the commission has notified the person of the testing requirement.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
  An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
  governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
  purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
  effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
  before that date.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
 
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