Bill Text: TX HB2347 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a microchip scan of animals in the custody of an animal shelter or releasing agency, including an animal rescue organization.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB2347 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2347-Comm_Sub.html
| 86R16642 SRA-D | |||
| By: Noble, Anderson, González of El Paso, | H.B. No. 2347 | ||
| Collier, Buckley, et al. | |||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2347: | |||
| By: Rosenthal | C.S.H.B. No. 2347 | ||
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| relating to a microchip scan of animals in the custody of an animal | ||
| shelter or releasing agency, including an animal rescue | ||
| organization. | ||
| 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. MICROCHIP SCAN REQUIRED. As soon as | ||
| practicable after an animal is placed in the custody of an animal | ||
| shelter or a releasing agency as defined by Section 828.001, | ||
| including an animal rescue organization, the shelter, agency, or | ||
| organization shall scan the animal to determine whether a microchip | ||
| is implanted in the animal. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
