Providing for criminal offenses related to beekeeping

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 18, 2019
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 18, 2019
3. ✓
   Done: Senate committeeFebruary 26, 2019
4. ✕
   Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
5. Next: House committee
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. 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.

Full bill text¹

Senate subcommittee

Named January 15, 2020. On January 28, 2020 it recommended passage.

• Sen. R. Taylor
• Sen. Annette Sweeney REmail
• Sen. Brad Zaun R

Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part

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