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Committee backs change to traffic code creating rebuttable presumption for open‑range livestock collisions
Summary
Senate Bill 113 would create a rebuttable presumption that a collision with open‑range livestock on a highway is due to driver negligence and would limit livestock damages to replacement cost; the committee passed the second substitute unanimously.
The House Transportation Standing Committee on Feb. 20 voted unanimously to pass Senate Bill 113 (second substitute), which alters civil liability rules for collisions with livestock on open range.
Senator Sandoval, the bill sponsor, said the measure responds to increasing disputes between livestock owners and insurers over collision claims on roads that cross open grazing. The bill creates a rebuttable presumption that, when livestock…
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