Kentucky House Bill 321 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: Introduced on February 15 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-02-23 - to Judiciary (H)
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Create or repeal and reenacted sections of KRS Chapter 525 to define terms; establish crimes of animal abuse in the first degree and animal abuse in the second degree; authorize law enforcement and animal control officers to seize and hold animals who are victims of cruelty or abuse; allow a seizing agency to seek forfeiture and reimbursement for reasonable costs of caring for seized animals from the owner of the animal in the criminal case; provide that the costs of caring for a seized animal shall apply to any offspring born to that animal while in custody; grant civil immunity to a person who enters a car containing a dog or cat believed in good faith to be in danger of death, subject to certain parameters; amend KRS 525.125 and 525.130 to provide for the seizure of animals from a person charged with cruelty to animals in the first degree and from a person charged with cruelty to animals in the second degree with additional available penalties; amend KRS 525.137 to allow seizure of an animal that has been the object of sexual crimes against an animal.

AN ACT relating to animals.

Rep. Kevin Bratcher [R]	Rep. Jason Nemes [R]	Rep. Kimberly Banta [R]	Rep. Samara Heavrin [R]
Rep. Kimberly Moser [R]	Rep. Killian Timoney [R]	Rep. Susan Tyler Witten [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-23	House	to Judiciary (H)
2023-02-15	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2023-02-15	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23RS/hb321.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/hb321/orig_bill.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/23RS/hb321/LM.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/23RS/hb321/CI.pdf