- ACTION ALERT: Support a great bill, HB 543 today!

This bill is a strong protection law for all commercial animal operations and is set for committee hearing on March 18, 2021, 8am,  before the Agricultural and Livestock Committee.

The Texas Working Animal Protection Act  (HB 543) is a great bill worth supporting!  This Act would prohibit a ban on any legal animal enterprise utilizing working animals in ranching, service, entertainment, transportation, exhibition, and education.  

It would slam the brake on any local government from banning commercial enterprises that have an animal(s) as a part of their business!

This proposed bill would effectively stop the overwhelming number of bills being pushed by the animal rights movement that ban carriage horses, exotic animal exhibitions, and circuses.

It is important to know that these bills would not affect animal welfare laws that are already in place. It would also not protect any illegal animal enterprises. In short, these bills would simply protect law-abiding citizens from having their livelihoods taken away by those trying to push the animal rights agenda forward.

The idea of HB 543 is to preempt any local city, county, or local governmental bans that detrimentally impact Texans and those that also come from outside Texas who use working animals as part of their legal business enterprise.

House Bill 543 would prohibit a county or municipality from adopting or enforcing a charter provision, ordinance order or other regulation that prohibits the use of an animal for the purpose of performing a duty for a business.