Bills › 88th General Assembly
Providing for criminal offenses related to beekeeping
Topics:Crime & corrections
Same legislation: SF 393
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 18, 2019
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 18, 2019
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 26, 2019
- Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 393
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became SF 393 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 393 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill amends provisions in Code chapter 160 which provides for the regulation of beekeeping by the department of agriculture and land stewardship., failing to properly care for bees or interfering with the department). The provision is phrased as a single sentence beginning with the requirement that one or all of the acts must be “knowingly” committed. The bill reformulates the sentence by stating that any of the acts constitutes a criminal offense if knowingly committed and then restructures the subsection to provide that each of a series of lettered paragraphs refers to a single criminal offense.
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A person who commits one of the discrete criminal offenses is guilty of a simple misdemeanor. A simple misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than days or a fine of at least $65 but not more than $625 or by both.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 18, 2019. It hasn’t reported yet.
- Sen. R. Taylor
- Sen. Annette Sweeney REmail
- Sen. Brad Zaun R
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