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Senate Bill 1232 |
Senate Author: Huffman et al. |
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Effective: 9-1-17 |
House Sponsor: Alvarado |
Senate Bill 1232 amends the Code of Criminal Procedure, Health and Safety Code, and Penal Code to create the state jail felony offense of bestiality and to set out discretionary conditions of community supervision for the offense. The bill includes an animal subjected to bestiality in the scope of provisions relating to the disposition of a cruelly treated animal and repeals a provision regarding the inadmissibility of an animal owner's statement made at a disposition hearing in a trial for certain animal cruelty offenses. The bill revises penalty enhancements for certain conduct constituting cruelty to nonlivestock animals.