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North Attleboro incident prompts bill to require professional rodeo safety standards in Massachusetts
3297240 · May 13, 2025
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Representative Kevin Scanlon urged enactment of H139 after eight bulls escaped a rodeo in North Attleboro; the bill would require rodeos to meet PRCA standards to improve public safety and animal welfare.
Representative Kevin Scanlon told the Joint Committee on Agriculture that H139, an act relative to rodeos, was filed after a November rodeo incident in North Attleboro in which animal handling equipment failed and eight bulls escaped onto public roads.
"I filed this bill because of an incident in North Attleboro last fall when, unfortunately, we had a freak accident…
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