Animals, Livestock, And Poultry
Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cruelty to equines. [HB-98]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to prohibit cruelty to equines including situations involving abuse, neglect, and sexual contact; make cruelty to equines a Class D felony and provide for the termination of ownership; list exceptions; establish a short title of "Klaire's Law"; specify that the provisions of KRS 6.945(1) do not apply to this Act.
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AN ACT relating to a youth crossbow deer hunting season. [HB-54]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to require the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to promulgate administrative regulations to establish a statewide youth crossbow deer hunting season; define terms; require the statewide youth crossbow deer hunting season to take place each year on the same dates established by the department for the statewide archery deer hunting season; require participants to comply with all statewide deer hunting requirements, including supervision requirements for youth deer hunters.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the humane treatment of animals. [HB-472]
Create a new section of KRS 258.095 to 258.500 to require owners of animals kept predominantly outdoors to provide adequate food, water, shelter, and veterinary care; provide that an animal control shall seize an animal not given care up to specified standards.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to assistance dogs. [HB-450]
Amend KRS 258.500 to prohibit the misrepresentation of assistance dogs; allow peace officers to investigate; amend KRS 258.991 to conform and remove outdated references.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to assistance animals. [HB-411]
Amend KRS 383.085, relating to reasonable accommodations for assistance animals in housing, to specify with whom a person with a disability can be in a therapeutic relationship; add instances that qualify as the prohibited act of misrepresentation of an assistance animal; allow a lessor to recover a fee upon the misrepresentation of an assistance animal by a lessee.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to an animal abuse registry. [HB-37]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 17 to establish the animal abuse offender registry; require the Kentucky State Police to maintain a registry of offenders who commit an animal abuse offense; establish the animal abuse offender registry fund; amend KRS 525.130 to increase the penalty for cruelty to animals in the second degree to a Class D felony for a second or subsequent offense; establish a short title of "Arrow's Law"; APPROPRIATION.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the safety of canines and felines. [HB-36]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to provide civil immunity for damaging a vehicle if a person enters the vehicle with the reasonable, good-faith belief that a dog or cat is in immediate danger of death if not removed.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cultured animal tissue. [HB-311]
Amend KRS 217.035 to include any food product that purports to be or is represented as meat or a meat product that contains any cultured animal tissue produced from in vitro animal cell cultures outside of the organism from which it is derived.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the operation of a vehicle propelled by animal power. [HB-279]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to prohibit the operation of animal drawn vehicles on a highway if the animals are wearing horseshoes that would damage the highway,
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to domestic violence. [HB-25]
Amend KRS 525.135 to prohibit pretrial diversion for a person charged with torture of a dog or cat, to make torture of a dog or cat a Class D felony, and to prohibit any form of early release for those who torture a dog or cat as a way to threaten, intimidate, coerce, harass, or terrorize a family member or member of a dating relationship; amend KRS 533.250 to prohibit the pretrial diversion program from being used for someone charged with torture of a dog or cat.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT designating the Kentucky Springseat Saddle (Minihan) as the official saddle of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. [HB-212]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate the Kentucky Springseat Saddle (Minihan) as the official saddle of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to assault on a service animal. [HB-157]
Amend KRS 525.200 to include assistance animals in the definition of "service animals" that are covered by assault on a service animal in the first degree.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wild game carcasses. [HB-125]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to prohibit the destruction or abandonment of usable meat from deer or elk that are taken and killed in the Commonwealth; prohibit the dumping of deer or elk carcasses on public areas or private areas without permission; provide exceptions; amend KRS 150.990 to establish penalties for violations.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to canines. [HB-512]
Create a new section of KRS 258.095 to 258.500 to enable local governments to legislate enforcement action for dogs and public safety, so long as that the ordinance, regulation, or policy does not regulate ownership of a dog by its breed or perceived breed and is consistent with state law.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the donation of game meat. [HB-511]
Amend KRS 217.217 to prohibit state and local government entities from restricting the donation of game meat to or from cooperative extension agencies for the purpose of free meal distribution.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the sale of dogs, cats, and rabbits in retail pet shops. [SB-179]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 258 to define "animal shelter," "breeder," "broker," and "retail pet shop"; to prohibit retail pet shops from selling dogs, cats, and rabbits; to allow retail pet shops to collaborate with animal shelters to showcase dogs, cats, or rabbits; to require retail pet shops to maintain records documenting the source of each dog, cat, or rabbit it sells for at least one (1) year; amend KRS 258.990 to include a penalty for retail pet shop operators who violate this Act.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to working animals. [SB-175]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 258 to guarantee the right to utilize working animals for the mutual benefit and welfare of the animals and those they serve.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to animal control officers. [SB-140]
Create a new section of KRS 258.095 to 258.500 to require the Department of Agriculture to provide continuing education on criminal and law enforcement procedures and investigatory practices to animal control officers; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2021.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cruelty to animals. [SB-142]
Amend KRS 525.130 to change mental state to knowing or reckless; delete domestic animal killed by poisoning; add requirements of legal food processing, customary veterinary practices performed by a licensed veterinarian, horse racing not governed by federal law, reasonable defense, and accepted animal or pest control practices; add requirement of legality for animals hunting; strike language regarding "equine" under penalty portion and allow costs for any animal; amend KRS 525.135 to define "physical injury" and "reasonable costs"; add knowing or
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cervid meat disposal. [HB-369]
Amend KRS 150.722 to include taxidermists in the requirements for disposal of unused cervid meat; limit the acceptable methods of disposal of unused cervid meat; amend KRS 150.010 to define "cervid."