Bill Text: TX HB269 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of the Institute for Chronic Wasting Disease Research.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB269 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB269-Introduced.html
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| By: Guillen | H.B. No. 269 | |
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| relating to the creation of the Institute for Chronic Wasting | ||
| Disease Research. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 86, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 86.83 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 86.83. INSTITUTE FOR CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE RESEARCH. | ||
| (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Breeder deer," "deer," and "deer breeder" have | ||
| the meanings assigned to those terms by Section 43.351, Parks and | ||
| Wildlife Code. | ||
| (2) "Chronic wasting disease" means a transmissible | ||
| spongiform encephalopathy infecting deer and related species and | ||
| their hybrids. | ||
| (3) "Institute" means the Institute for Chronic | ||
| Wasting Disease Research. | ||
| (b) The Institute for Chronic Wasting Disease Research is a | ||
| component of Texas A&M University. | ||
| (c) The institute is under the management and direction of | ||
| the board. | ||
| (d) The institute may employ personnel. | ||
| (e) The institute may accept a gift or grant from any public | ||
| or private source for the benefit of the institute. | ||
| (f) The institute shall, in partnership with deer breeders: | ||
| (1) study the progression of chronic wasting disease; | ||
| (2) analyze the genetic profiles of deer infected with | ||
| chronic wasting disease; | ||
| (3) develop: | ||
| (A) strategies to prevent chronic wasting | ||
| disease; | ||
| (B) efforts to mitigate transmission of chronic | ||
| wasting disease; and | ||
| (C) treatments for chronic wasting disease; and | ||
| (4) evaluate the implementation of strategies, | ||
| mitigation efforts, and treatments developed under Subdivision | ||
| (3), including for breeder deer. | ||
| (g) The institute may conduct an activity described by | ||
| Subsection (f) at a location: | ||
| (1) for which a deer breeder's permit was issued, at | ||
| the deer breeder's request; or | ||
| (2) operated by the institute. | ||
| (h) A deer breeder who makes available to the institute a | ||
| breeder deer for an activity described by Subsection (f) is | ||
| entitled to compensation from the institute for: | ||
| (1) a breeder deer on which the institute directly | ||
| conducts the activity, regardless of the location of the activity; | ||
| and | ||
| (2) any breeder deer at the deer breeder's permitted | ||
| location that the breeder is prohibited from selling, transferring, | ||
| or releasing because the institute conducts an activity described | ||
| by Subsection (f) at the location. | ||
| (i) Notwithstanding any other law, a deer breeder or the | ||
| institute may transfer a breeder deer from the location for which | ||
| the deer breeder's permit was issued to the institute to conduct an | ||
| activity described by Subsection (f). | ||
| SECTION 2. The Institute for Chronic Wasting Disease | ||
| Research is required to implement a provision of this Act only if | ||
| the legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose. | ||
| If the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that | ||
| purpose, the institute may, but is not required to, implement a | ||
| provision of this Act using other appropriations available for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
