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Enrolled Bill Summary

Enrolled Bill Summary

Legislative Session: 85(R)

Senate Bill 762

Senate Author:  Menéndez et al.

Effective:  9-1-17

House Sponsor:  Moody


            Senate Bill 762 amends the Penal Code to revise the penalties associated with certain conduct constituting cruelty to nonlivestock animals and repeals a Health and Safety Code provision that makes a statement of an allegedly cruelly treated animal's owner made at a hearing regarding the animal's disposition inadmissible in the owner's trial for cruelty to a livestock or nonlivestock animal.