CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2802

Chapter 234, Laws of 2004

58th Legislature
2004 Regular Session

NONAMBULATORY LIVESTOCK

EFFECTIVE DATE: 3/31/04

Passed by the House March 11, 2004 Yeas 94 Nays 2 FRANK CHOPP ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 11, 2004 Yeas 49 Nays 0 BRAD OWEN ________________________________________ President of the Senate		CERTIFICATE I, Richard Nafziger, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2802 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth. RICHARD NAFZIGER ________________________________________ Chief Clerk
Approved March 31, 2004. GARY F. LOCKE ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington		FILED March 31, 2004 - 2:21 p.m. Secretary of State State of Washington

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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2802
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AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed Legislature - 2004 Regular Session

State of Washington

58th Legislature

2004 Regular Session

By House Committee on Agriculture Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Representatives Schoesler, Linville, Romero, Grant, Shabro, Schual-Berke, Rockefeller, Flannigan, Alexander, Hudgins, Anderson, Ruderman, Sump, Murray, Boldt, Darneille, Clements, Dickerson, Newhouse, Hunt, Lantz, McDermott, Kenney, Haigh, Clibborn, Kristiansen, Holmquist, Quall, O'Brien, Eickmeyer, Woods, Buck, Bailey, Kessler, Simpson, G., Morrell, Wallace, Lovick, Edwards, Benson, Pearson, Nixon, Armstrong, Hinkle, Wood, Moeller, Ahern, Roach, Cooper, McCoy, Cody, Conway, Kagi, Ormsby, Skinner, McMorris, Campbell, Sullivan, Chase, Santos and Condotta)

READ FIRST TIME 02/06/04.

AN ACT Relating to penalties for trading in nonambulatory livestock; adding a new section to chapter 16.52 RCW; prescribing penalties; and declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 16.52 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) A person is guilty of a gross misdemeanor punishable as provided in RCW 9A.20.021 if he or she knowingly transports or accepts delivery of live nonambulatory livestock to, from, or between any livestock market, feedlot, slaughtering facility, or similar facility that trades in livestock. The transport or acceptance of each nonambulatory livestock animal is considered a separate and distinct violation.
     (2) Nonambulatory livestock must be humanely euthanized before transport to, from, or between locations listed in subsection (1) of this section.
     (3) Livestock that was ambulatory prior to transport to a feedlot and becomes nonambulatory because of an injury sustained during transport may be unloaded and placed in a separate pen for rehabilitation at the feedlot.
     (4) For the purposes of this section, "nonambulatory livestock" means cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equine that cannot rise from a recumbent position or cannot walk, including but not limited to those with broken appendages, severed tendons or ligaments, nerve paralysis, a fractured vertebral column, or metabolic conditions.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2 This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect immediately.

         Passed by the House March 11, 2004.
         Passed by the Senate March 11, 2004.
         Approved by the Governor March 31, 2004.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 31, 2004.