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Agriculture Code § 161.0311
The commission may solicit and accept gifts, grants, and donations, and must report their source and amount to the legislature each year by December 31.
- Grants and donations
- Reporting
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Agriculture Code § 161.033
The commission must maintain a complaint-handling system and keep complaint information, publish its investigation-and-resolution procedures, and update complaint parties on status until final disposition unless that would jeopardize an investigation.
- Complaints handling
- Investigations
- Public information
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Agriculture Code § 161.0335
The commission must adopt a policy that uses appropriate technology to improve its functions and lets the public interact with it on the Internet.
- Public internet access
- Technology policy
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Agriculture Code § 161.0336
The commission must post complaint-procedure information on its website and explain how complaints are filed and which complaints it can resolve.
- Complaints procedures
- Public information
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Agriculture Code § 161.034
The commission must make its meetings publicly accessible and post audio archives online.
- Meeting procedures
- Public information
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Agriculture Code § 161.035
The commission may create advisory committees by rule and must adopt rules governing their operation.
- Advisory committees
- Governance
- Rulemaking
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Agriculture Code § 161.036
The commission must follow federal and state accessibility laws, and the executive director must keep a written plan for giving people who do not speak English reasonable access to the commission’s programs and services.
- Facility accessibility
- Language access
- Program accessibility
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Agriculture Code § 161.037
The commission must periodically review its services, including laboratory services also available in the private sector, to find the most cost-effective way to deliver them.
- Agency operations
- Service delivery
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Agriculture Code § 161.0375
The commission must periodically analyze violations and compliance information and share it statewide and regionally.
- Compliance monitoring
- Enforcement review
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Agriculture Code § 161.038
The commission must follow the administrative procedure law in Chapter 2001 of the Government Code.
- Administrative procedure
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Agriculture Code § 161.039
The commission must adopt and share agencywide compliance policies and internal operating procedures.
- Compliance policies
- Internal operating procedures
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Agriculture Code § 161.040
The commission must create and carry out a policy encouraging negotiated rulemaking and alternative dispute resolution, follow applicable state model guidelines for dispute resolution procedures as closely as possible, and designate a trained person to coordinate, support training, and collect effectiveness data.
- Dispute resolution
- Rulemaking
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Agriculture Code § 161.041
The commission must protect certain livestock and fowl from diseases, adopt and update disease lists by rule, and may act to control or eradicate diseases and related transmission agents.
- Commission rules
- Disease control
- Livestock regulation
- Offenses and penalties
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Agriculture Code § 161.0411
Sellers, distributors, and transporters of live domestic or exotic fowl in this state must register with the commission, and the commission can exempt certain disease-surveillance participants.
- Fees
- Offenses
- Penalties
- Registration
- Rulemaking
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Agriculture Code § 161.0412
The commission may require registration of feral swine holding facilities, and a person confining feral swine in such a facility may be required to register with the commission.
- Disease control
- Facility registration
- Inspections
- Recordkeeping
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Agriculture Code § 161.0415
The commission can order slaughter or disposal of certain livestock or fowl exposed to or infected with specified diseases, and it must promptly send a copy of some orders to legislative oversight committees.
- Agency orders
- Disease control
- Livestock disposal
- Rulemaking
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Agriculture Code § 161.0416
The commission may prepare for, respond to, and help recover from certain animal-related disaster events, and may assist with local emergency management planning.
- Disaster response
- Livestock
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Agriculture Code § 161.0417
A person, including a veterinarian, must be authorized by the commission before doing disease-control or eradication work for animals.
- Authorization
- Disease control
- Veterinary medicine
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Agriculture Code § 161.042
The commission may control the sale and distribution of veterinary biologics, but not rabies vaccine.
- Distribution control
- Sales control
- Veterinary biologics
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Agriculture Code § 161.043
The commission may control how livestock, domestic animals, and domestic fowl enter exhibitions, shows, and fairs, and may require treatment or certification when reasonably needed to guard against communicable diseases.
- Animal disease control
- Livestock exhibitions
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