KY HB428 | 2016 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)
Status: Passed on April 8 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-04-08 - signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 64)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)
Status: Passed on April 8 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-04-08 - signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 64)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]
Summary
Amend KRS 525.125 to make any person who knowingly owns, possesses, keeps, breeds, trains, sells, or otherwise transfers a dog for the purpose of that dog or its offspring being used to fight for pleasure or profit guilty of cruelty to animals in the first degree, a Class D felony; provide that activities of animals engaged in guarding livestock shall not constitute cruelty to animals in the first degree.
Title
AN ACT relating to cruelty to animals.
Sponsors
| Rep. Wilson Stone [D] | Rep. Linda Belcher [D] | Rep. Ron Crimm [R] | Rep. Dennis Horlander [D] |
| Rep. David Osborne [R] | Rep. Jody Richards [D] | Rep. Susan Westrom [D] |
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-08 | House | signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 64) |
| 2016-03-28 | House | delivered to Governor |
| 2016-03-28 | House | enrolled, signed by each presiding officer |
| 2016-03-28 | House | received in House |
| 2016-03-25 | Senate | 3rd reading, passed 37-0 |
| 2016-03-24 | Senate | posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Friday, March 25, 2016 (Consent Orders #1) |
| 2016-03-24 | Senate | reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2016-03-23 | Senate | to Agriculture (S) |
| 2016-03-23 | Senate | returned to Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2016-03-23 | Senate | 1st reading |
| 2016-03-23 | Senate | taken from Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2016-03-22 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2016-03-21 | House | 3rd reading, passed 97-0 with Committee Substitutes (1) floor amendment (5) |
| 2016-03-21 | House | floor amendment (5) filed to Committee Substitute |
| 2016-03-18 | House | floor amendment (3) filed (2) and (4) filed to Committee Substitute |
| 2016-03-16 | House | floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute |
| 2016-03-16 | House | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 17, 2016 |
| 2016-03-10 | House | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2016-03-09 | House | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2016-03-07 | House | posted in committee |
| 2016-02-22 | House | to Judiciary (H) |
| 2016-02-18 | House | introduced in House |
