SHB 1398 -
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 -
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.