By: Frullo, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst) H.B. No. 2213
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 2021;
  May 6, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Water,
  Agriculture & Rural Affairs; May 13, 2021, reported adversely,
  with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
  Nays 0; May 13, 2021, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2213 By:  Kolkhorst
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the slaughter and processing of exotic animals for
  donation to a nonprofit food bank.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  The heading to Section 433.006, Health and
  Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 433.006.  EXEMPTION FOR PERSONAL USE OR DONATION TO
  NONPROFIT FOOD BANK [EXEMPTION].
         SECTION 2.  Section 433.006, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to
  read as follows:
         (a)  The provisions of this chapter requiring inspection of
  the slaughter of livestock and the preparation of carcasses, parts
  of carcasses, meat, and meat food products at establishments
  conducting those operations do not apply to the slaughtering of
  livestock or the preparation and transportation in intrastate
  commerce of those articles if:
               (1)  the articles are:
                     (A)  livestock exclusively for personal use by the
  owner of the livestock, a member of the owner's family, or a
  nonpaying guest of the owner; or
                     (B)  exotic animals exclusively for donation by a
  hunter to a nonprofit food bank, as defined by Section 418.026(a),
  Government Code;
               (2)  the slaughter or preparation is conducted at the
  owner's premises, the premises where the hunter killed the exotic
  animal, or at a processing establishment; and
               (3)  the transportation is limited to moving the
  carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, and meat food products to and
  from:
                     (A)  the owner's premises and a processing
  establishment; or
                     (B)  the premises where the hunter killed the
  exotic animal, the processing establishment, and the nonprofit food
  bank.
         (d)  An article described by Subsection (a)(1)(B) may not be
  combined with:
               (1)  a meat food product regulated under the Federal
  Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. Section 601 et seq.); or
               (2)  a poultry product regulated under the federal
  Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. Section 451 et seq.).
         SECTION 3.  Section 433.024(b), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  The department shall inspect each slaughtering
  establishment whose primary business is the selling of livestock to
  be slaughtered by the purchaser on premises owned or operated by the
  seller.  This subsection does not nullify the provisions in Section
  433.006 relating to exemptions [personal use exemption].
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
 
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