File Code: Agriculture
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 417/04 - EHE
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Grosfeld, Britt, Jones, Pinsky, and Stone
- Entitled:
-
Agriculture - Confinement of Pregnant Sows and Gilts - Minimum
Enclosure Size
Prohibiting a person from confining or tethering a pregnant sow or
gilt for a specified amount of time in a specified manner; providing
specified exceptions to the prohibition; establishing specified
penalties for a violation of the Act; and establishing that each
instance of confining or tethering a single sow or gilt constitutes a
separate offense.
Senate Action
- 2/4
- First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 2/16
- Hearing 3/1 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/8
- Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House Action
- No Action
Sponsored by:
- Senator Sharon M. Grosfeld, District 18
- Senator Gwendolyn Britt, District 47
- Senator Verna L. Jones, District 44
- Senator Paul G. Pinsky, District 22
- Senator Norman R. Stone, Jr., District 6
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ANIMALS -see also- BIRDS; TURTLES
- PENALTIES
- PREGNANCY
Bill affects the following Statute:
- Agriculture
- (
3-404.1
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments:
None offered
