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2025 · Regular session · House bill

HB1592

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service must develop and operate a statewide internet-based alert system for dangerous plant and wildlife pests, diseases and quarantines.

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Official caption: Relating to an alert system for dangerous plant and wildlife pests and diseases administered by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.

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Official report lists House author(s): Plesa, Ashby, González, Mary. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.

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Bill highlights

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Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service must develop and operate a statewide internet-based alert system for dangerous plant and wildlife pests, diseases and quarantines.
AgriLife Extension must work with the Department of Agriculture, Texas Animal Health Commission and Parks and Wildlife Department.
The law took effect September 1, 2025.

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What does it do?

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service must develop and operate a statewide internet-based alert system for dangerous plant and wildlife pests, diseases and quarantines. The system must let people enroll to receive notifications by email. This is a requirement to create a notification system, not a new power to impose a quarantine. Final law.

Notifications must cover:

Confirmed cases of dangerous plant or wildlife pests or diseases.
The creation, modification or removal of a pest or disease quarantine order.
Compliance agreements entered into with the Texas Department of Agriculture concerning a pest or disease quarantine.

AgriLife Extension must work with the Department of Agriculture, Texas Animal Health Commission and Parks and Wildlife Department. It must enter into a memorandum of understanding with those agencies to ensure it can issue required notifications within 72 hours of an applicable agency action. The law does not say every suspected case must trigger an alert or that every alert goes to everyone in Texas automatically; it expressly requires enrollment for delivery. Final law, Section 1.

The law took effect September 1, 2025. It does not specify a separate launch deadline or demonstrate that a particular alert has been sent. Official history.

What changed along the way?

The official amendment index states that the bill has no amendments. The introduced, House committee, House-passed, Senate committee and enrolled versions have identical operative text. No floor-amendment proposal or conference change altered the final requirements. Text-version index.

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Official bill versions

Compare the published text versions in the official text index. A change is not attributed to a specific amendment here without a verified record.

Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?

Growers, landowners, wildlife managers and others who enroll could receive more timely information about confirmed threats, quarantine changes and related compliance agreements. The usefulness of an alert depends on agency reporting and the recipient receiving and acting on it; the law does not promise to prevent losses or pay compensation.

AgriLife Extension and the cooperating agencies must build or adapt the system and coordinate information. The May 15, 2025 fiscal note anticipates no significant state fiscal impact, assuming costs can be absorbed with existing resources, and no local-government fiscal impact. It supplies no quantified two-year or five-year estimate and is not a new appropriation or an estimate of farmers’ savings.

Review boundary: Both enacted sections, all five text versions, official history, the no-amendments index and both available fiscal notes were checked. This explains the legal requirements, not whether the system has launched or met the 72-hour coordination standard in practice.

Official sources

Catalog report retrieved 2026-10-25. Check the official record for corrections or later changes.