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2018 SESSION
SB 729 Cruelty to animals; aggravated cruelty, penalty.
Introduced by: Bill R. DeSteph, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Cruelty to animals; aggravated cruelty; penalty. Provides that a person who commits an act of aggravated cruelty on a companion animal is guilty of a Class 6 felony. The bill defines "aggravated cruelty" and "torture." The bill increases from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalty for torturing, killing, or willfully inflicting inhumane injury or pain to a dog or cat. Current law requires that the dog or cat die as a direct result of the torture or cruelty before the violation is a Class 6 felony.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/18 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100183D pdf | impact statements
- 01/22/18 Senate: Committee substitute printed 18105594D-S1 pdf | impact statements
HISTORY
- 01/10/18 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100183D
- 01/10/18 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 01/18/18 Senate: Rereferred from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (11-Y 0-N)
- 01/18/18 Senate: Rereferred to Courts of Justice
- 01/22/18 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/22/18 Senate: Committee substitute printed 18105594D-S1
- 01/22/18 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 01/31/18 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (16-Y 0-N)