Bill Text: TX HB652 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to notice of an animal's possible exposure in an animal shelter to certain communicable or infectious diseases.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-14 - Referred to Health & Human Services [HB652 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB652-Engrossed.html
By: Paul, Price, et al. | H.B. No. 652 |
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relating to notice of an animal's possible exposure in an animal | ||
shelter to certain communicable or 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. NOTICE OF CERTAIN COMMUNICABLE OR INFECTIOUS | ||
DISEASES. (a) The department, in consultation with the State Board | ||
of Veterinary Medical Examiners, shall develop and the department | ||
and board shall each post on the agency's Internet website a model | ||
electronic or written notice regarding an animal's possible | ||
exposure to a communicable or infectious disease while the animal | ||
is in an animal shelter. At a minimum the notice must: | ||
(1) warn a person who adopts an animal from a shelter | ||
about the animal's possible exposure to common communicable or | ||
infectious diseases, the incubation period for those diseases, and | ||
the need to monitor the animal for two weeks; and | ||
(2) encourage the person to have a veterinarian | ||
examine the adopted animal after adoption. | ||
(b) An animal shelter may provide the notice developed under | ||
Subsection (a) to a person at the time the person adopts an animal | ||
from the shelter. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |