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House narrows animal-protection bill to safeguard rodeos, adopts several local-control clarifications
Summary
Lawmakers amended House Bill 63 to add explicit exceptions for rodeos, fairs and agricultural exhibitions and debated preserving local licensing for circuses and municipal ordinances regarding animal welfare.
House Bill 63, sponsored by Representative Rodriguez Williams (as recorded), returned to the House floor on Jan. 29 with several second-reading amendments aimed at clarifying that the statute should not unintentionally restrict rodeos, agricultural fairs or local public-health permitting.
Representative Pendergraft offered second-reading amendment number 1 to insert explicit exceptions for rodeos, jackpots, agricultural exhibitions and similar events. She explained the amendment was…
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