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Senate committee pulls feral hog bill for amendment over landowner authorization
Summary
Lawmakers reviewed a feral hog management bill that would allow administrative penalties and fund eradication but paused action after questions that lessees, not only owners, could authorize release of hogs onto private property; sponsor agreed to remove the contested language and bring the bill back.
The Senate Agriculture, Forestry & Economic Development Committee reviewed House Bill 16‑36, legislation aimed at advancing the state—s feral hog eradication efforts by authorizing the Livestock and Poultry Commission to impose administrative penalties and directing penalties into eradication work.
Secretary Wes Ward of the Arkansas Department of Agriculture told the committee the bill…
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