1398-S AMS ARED S2842.1

SHB 1398  - S COMM AMD
     By Committee on Agriculture & Rural Economic Development

     Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:

"Sec. 1   RCW 9A.56.080 and 2003 c 53 s 74 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Every person who, with intent to sell or exchange and to deprive or defraud the lawful owner thereof, willfully takes, leads, or transports away, conceals, withholds, slaughters, or otherwise appropriates any horse, mule, cow, heifer, bull, steer, swine, goat, or sheep is guilty of theft of livestock in the first degree.
     (2) Theft of livestock in the first degree is a class B felony.

Sec. 2   RCW 4.24.320 and 2003 c 53 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
     Any person who suffers damages as a result of actions described in RCW 9A.48.080(c) or any owner of a horse, mule, cow, heifer, bull, steer, swine, goat, or sheep who suffers damages as a result of a willful, unauthorized act described in RCW 9A.56.080 or 9A.56.083 may bring an action against the person or persons committing the act in a court of competent jurisdiction for exemplary damages up to three times the actual damages sustained, plus attorney's fees."

SHB 1398  - S COMM AMD
     By Committee on Agriculture & Rural Economic Development

     On page 1, line 1 of the title, after "livestock;" strike the remainder of the title and insert "amending RCW 9A.56.080 and 4.24.320; and prescribing penalties."

EFFECT:  Restores deleted language concerning recovery of treble damages for damage to livestock.

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