The Brief

The budget passed by the Texas Legislature allocates $13 million to a pilot program to spay and neuter cats and dogs.

Gov. Greg Abbott has yet to approve this funding.

This builds off of recently passed legislation, Senate Bill 1568, which created specialty license plates to fund animal sterilization.

Texas lawmakers passed a budget that sets aside $13 million for animal spaying and neutering services in order to limit the spread of infectious diseases.

If approved by the governor, the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) would lead a statewide pilot program over the next two years.

Spaying and Neutering Pilot Program

What we know:

The program was created in an effort to reduce the prevalence of infectious diseases such as rabies, toxoplasmosis, and leptospirosis. T

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