{"id":9158,"date":"2019-10-04T21:09:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T03:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=9158"},"modified":"2025-07-07T16:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T22:08:13","slug":"sunset-advisory-commission-invites-public-input-on-the-texas-animal-health-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/government\/sunset-advisory-commission-invites-public-input-on-the-texas-animal-health-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunset Advisory Commission Invites Public Input on the Texas Animal Health Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">NEWS RELEASE<br \/>\nTexas Animal Health Commission<br \/>\n\u201cServing Texas Animal Agriculture Since 1893\u201d<br \/>\nAndy Schwartz, DVM \u00a0Executive Director<br \/>\nP.O. Box l2966 \u00a0Austin, Texas 78711 \u00a0(800) 550-8242 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tahc.texas.gov\">www.tahc.texas.gov<\/a><br \/>\nFor more information contact the Public Information Dept. at 512-719-0750 or at <a href=\"mailto:public_info@tahc.texas.gov\">public_info@tahc.texas.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Austin, TX<\/strong> \u2013 The Sunset Advisory Commission is reviewing the mission and performance of the Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) and welcomes public comments on whether the agency is still needed and ideas to improve its operations and services. The Texas Sunset Act requires the Sunset Commission to periodically review TAHC and recommend whether to continue the agency and change state law to improve the agency\u2019s efficiency and effectiveness. The Legislature ultimately will decide whether to continue TAHC and adopt Sunset\u2019s other statutory recommendations. The Sunset Commission also may adopt management directives for TAHC that do not require statutory change.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunset process has three stages. First, Sunset staff will evaluate TAHC, seek public input, and issue a report recommending solutions to problems found. Second, the Sunset Commission will hold two public meetings: a hearing on the staff report and the agency, and a decision meeting to adopt recommendations to the Legislature based on the report and public comments. Third, the Legislature will convene in January 2021 and will consider Sunset\u2019s statutory recommendations in a Sunset bill for TAHC.<\/p>\n<p>Here are several ways to provide comments and suggestions to Sunset staff on TAHC\u2019s mission, operations, and services:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Send an email to sunset@sunset.texas.gov<\/li>\n<li>Submit comments online at www.sunset.texas.gov<\/li>\n<li>Send a letter to Sunset Advisory Commission, Attn: TAHC, P.O. Box 13066, Austin, Texas 78711<\/li>\n<li>Call (512) 463-1300 to speak to Darren McDivitt, project manager of the TAHC review<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please provide your comments by December 1, 2019, to ensure Sunset staff can fully consider your input while conducting their review. Comments submitted before the staff report is published in 2020 will remain confidential.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunset.texas.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.sunset.texas.gov<\/a> to sign up for email alerts on the Sunset staff report and the Sunset Commission\u2019s public meetings on TAHC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS RELEASE Texas Animal Health Commission \u201cServing Texas Animal Agriculture Since 1893\u201d Andy Schwartz, DVM \u00a0Executive Director P.O. Box l2966 \u00a0Austin, Texas 78711 \u00a0(800) 550-8242 www.tahc.texas.gov For more information contact the Public Information Dept. at 512-719-0750 or at public_info@tahc.texas.gov Austin, TX \u2013 The Sunset Advisory Commission is reviewing the mission and performance of the Texas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1205],"tags":[1231,220,219],"class_list":["post-9158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-texas-animal-health-commission","tag-sunset-advisory-commission","tag-tahc","tag-texas-animal-health-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10047,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158\/revisions\/10047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}