TX HB2992

Renames the "Rural Veterinarian Incentive Program" to the "Rural and Shelter Veterinarian Incentive Program" to expand eligibility beyond rural areas

Adds "shelter medicine" as a qualifying practice area, defined as veterinary care for stray, homeless, abandoned, or unwanted animals

Defines "high-quality, high-volume spay and neuter clinic" as a facility that spays/neuters at least 40 dogs per business day and charges below-market fees

Expands program sponsorship to include communities or political subdivisions where high-quality, high-volume spay and neuter clinics are located, not just rural counties (population under 150,000)

Adds two shelter medicine practitioners associated with animal shelters to the program committee, appointed by the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners president