(a) The commission shall protect all livestock, exotic livestock, domestic fowl, and exotic fowl from the following diseases and agents of disease transmission:
  (1) Anthrax;
  (2) Avian infectious laryngotracheitis;
  (3) Avian influenza;
  (4) Babesiosis;
  (5) Brucellosis;
  (6) Chronic wasting disease;
  (7) Classical swine fever;
  (8) Equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy (EHV1-EHM);
  (9) Equine infectious anemia;
  (10) Equine piroplasmosis;
  (11) Foot-and-mouth disease;
  (12) Fowl typhoid;
  (13) Glanders;
  (14) Hemorrhagic septicemia;
  (15) Pullorum disease;
  (16) Rabies;
  (17) Scabies;
  (18) Scrapie;
  (19) Swine pseudorabies;
  (20) Trichomoniasis;
  (21) Tuberculosis; and
  (22) Foreign or emerging diseases the Executive Director of the Texas Animal Health Commission determines by order requires control or eradication.
(b) The commission may act to eradicate or control any disease or agent of disease transmission that affects livestock, exotic livestock, domestic fowl, or exotic fowl if the disease or agent of disease transmission is:
  (1) recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture as a foreign animal disease or a reportable animal disease;
  (2) the subject of a cooperative eradication program with the United States Department of Agriculture;
  (3) reportable to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE);
  (4) the subject of a state emergency, as declared by the Governor;
  (5) any individual case report, outbreak, emerging disease, or unusual group expression of disease or agent of disease transmission, which affects livestock, exotic livestock, domestic fowl, or exotic fowl other than bluetongue; or
  (6) a disease or agent of disease transmission designated by the Texas Animal Health Commission in §45.3(c) of this section.
(c) The commission designates the following as reportable and actionable diseases and agents of disease transmission.
  (1) Multiple species:
    (A) African animal trypanosomiasis;
    (B) Akabane disease;
    (C) Anthrax;
    (D) Asian longhorned tick (Haemaphysalis longicornis);
    (E) Aujeszky's disease (pseudorabies);
    (F) Bont and tropical bont tick (Ambylomma hebraeum and Amblyomma variegatum);
    (G) Fever tick (Rhipicephalus (formerly Boophilus) annulatus and Rhipicephalus microplus);
    (H) Foot-and-mouth disease;
    (I) Heartwater;
    (J) Leishmaniasis;
    (K) Malignant Catarrhal Fever caused by a ruminant gamma herpesvirus;
    (L) Rabies;
    (M) Rift Valley fever;
    (N) Rinderpest;
    (O) Schmallenberg virus;
    (P) Screwworm; and
    (Q) Vesicular stomatitis virus;
  (2) Cattle:
    (A) Bovine babesiosis;
    (B) Bovine brucellosis (Brucella abortus);
    (C) Bovine spongiform encephalopathy;
    (D) Bovine trichomoniasis;
    (E) Bovine tuberculosis;
    (F) Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia;
    (G) East Coast fever (Theileriosis);
    (H) Hemorrhagic septicemia;
    (I) Lumpy skin disease; and
    (J) Scabies;
  (3) Cervidae:
    (A) Brucellosis (Brucella abortus, Brucella suis (biotype 4));
    (B) Chronic wasting disease; and
    (C) Tuberculosis;
  (4) Sheep and goat:
    (A) Caprine and ovine brucellosis (Brucella melitensis, Brucella ovis);
    (B) Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia;
    (C) Nairobi sheep disease;
    (D) Peste des petits ruminants;
    (E) Scabies;
    (F) Scrapie; and
    (G) Sheep pox and goat pox;
  (5) Equine:
    (A) African horse sickness;
    (B) Contagious equine metritis;
    (C) Dourine;
    (D) Equine encephalomyelitis (Eastern, Western, and Venezuelan);
    (E) Equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy (EHV1-EHM);
    (F) Equine infectious anemia;
    (G) Equine piroplasmosis;
    (H) Equine viral arteritis;
    (I) Glanders;
    (J) Hendra virus (equine morbillivirus pneumonia);
    (K) Japanese encephalitis; and
    (L) Surra (Trypanosoma evansi);
  (6) Swine:
    (A) African swine fever;
    (B) Classical swine fever (hog cholera);
    (C) Swine brucellosis (Brucella suis);
    (D) Swine pseudorabies;
    (E) Swine vesicular disease; and
    (F) Vesicular exanthema of swine;
  (7) Poultry and avian:
    (A) Arboviral encephalitis;
    (B) Avian chlamydiosis (ornithosis, psitticosis);
    (C) Avian infectious laryngotracheitis;
    (D) Avian tuberculosis (Mycobacterium avium);
    (E) Duck virus hepatitis;
    (F) Fowl typhoid;
    (G) Highly pathogenic avian influenza (fowl plague, orthomyxovirus (type H5 or H7));
    (H) Low pathogenic avian influenza;
    (I) Newcastle disease (paramyxovirus serotype 1 (PMV-1));
    (J) Paramyxovirus infections (other than Newcastle disease; PMV-2 to PMV-9); and
    (K) Pullorum disease;
  (8) Rabbit:
    (A) Myxomatosis; and
    (B) Rabbit hemorrhagic disease.
(d) The Executive Director of the Texas Animal Health Commission is authorized to determine the necessary requirements related to quarantine, disposal, testing, movement, inspection, and treatment of diseases or agents of disease transmission in this chapter.

Source Note: The provisions of this §45.3 adopted to be effective October 21, 2021, 46 TexReg 7040; amended to be effective May 17, 2023, 48 TexReg 2480