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Senate panel advances bill increasing penalties for harming police dogs and horses
Summary
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee voted to send Senate Bill 427 to the full committee after testimony from sheriffs, prosecutors and police organizations urging tougher penalties, restitution and other measures for persons who injure or kill law-enforcement dogs or horses.
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee on April 27 advanced Senate Bill 427, which would raise penalties for mistreating law-enforcement dogs and horses and require restitution to agencies that lose or must replace a service animal.
The bill, as described to the subcommittee, would raise misdemeanor penalties for taunting, tormenting, teasing, beating, striking or drugging a law-enforcement dog or horse to a fine of $2,000 to $5,000 and/or 30 days to five years in jail. It would raise the felony penalty for torturing, mutilating, injuring, disabling, poisoning or killing such an animal to a fine of $2,000 to $20,000 and/or two to 10 years in prison, require payment of restitution to the law-enforcement agency to cover replacement costs, and…
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