By: Cain (Senate Sponsor - Springer) H.B. No. 3361
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2023;
  May 5, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Water,
  Agriculture & Rural Affairs; May 19, 2023, reported favorably by
  the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 1; May 19, 2023, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE VOTE
 
 
         YeaNayAbsentPNV
         PerryX
         HancockX
         BlancoX
         FloresX
         GutierrezX
         JohnsonX
         KolkhorstX
         SparksX
         SpringerX
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the slaughtering of livestock.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 148.001, Agriculture Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 148.001.  DEFINITION.  In this chapter, "slaughterer"
  means a person engaged in the business of[:
               [(1)]  slaughtering livestock for profit[; or
               [(2)  selling livestock, as a primary business, to be
  slaughtered by the purchaser on premises owned or operated by the
  seller, in a county:
                     [(A)  with a population of one million or more;
                     [(B)  that contains two or more municipalities
  with a population of 250,000 or more;
                     [(C)  that is adjacent to a county described by
  Paragraph (B); or
                     [(D)  that is adjacent to a county described by
  Paragraph (C) and:
                           [(i)  has a population of not more than
  50,000 and contains a municipality with a population of at least
  20,000; or
                           [(ii)  contains, wholly or partly, two or
  more municipalities with a population of 250,000 or more].
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 234, Local Government
  Code, is repealed.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
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