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  By: Paul, Guerra, Price, et al. H.B. No. 652
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 652:
 
  By:  Klick C.S.H.B. No. 652
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to notice of an animal's exposure or possible exposure in
  an animal shelter to certain infectious diseases.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 823, Health and Safety Code, is amended
  by adding Section 823.004 to read as follows:
         Sec. 823.004.  REQUIRED NOTICE OF CERTAIN INFECTIOUS
  DISEASES. (a)  An animal shelter shall provide written,
  electronic, or telephonic notice to a person who adopts an animal
  from the shelter if the adopted animal was or may have been exposed
  to a bodily fluid of another animal in the shelter that was
  diagnosed with bordetella, distemper, kennel cough, leptospirosis,
  parvovirus, or rabies and the shelter learns of the exposure during
  the period:
               (1)  beginning on the 15th day before the date the
  person adopts the animal; and
               (2)  ending on the 15th day after the date the person
  adopts the animal.
         (b)  Section 823.009 does not apply to this section.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.