5501-S AMH KLIP HARO 262

SSB 5501 - H AMD TO JUDI COMM AMD (H-2434.1/15) 351

By Representative Klippert

ADOPTED 04/14/2015

    On page 6, line 32 of the striking amendment, after "image." insert the following:

    "Sec. 7.  RCW 16.52.185 and 1994 c 261 s 22 are each amended to read as follows:

Nothing in this chapter applies to accepted husbandry practices used in the commercial or non-commercial raising or slaughtering of livestock or poultry, or products thereof or to the use of animals in the normal and usual course of rodeo events or to the customary use or exhibiting of animals in normal and usual events at fairs as defined in RCW 15.76.120."

EFFECT:  Expands the current law exemption to the animal cruelty statutes for accepted husbandry practices in the commercial raising or slaughtering of livestock or poultry, to also apply to the non-commercial raising or slaughtering of livestock or poultry.

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