Committee backs change to traffic code creating rebuttable presumption for open‑range livestock collisions

Feb 24, 2025

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.

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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.

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