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Panel weighs 'necessity' language after Senate strikes self-defense from animal-use bill
Summary
Sen. Shanika Henson asked the committee to retain language (defense of necessity) in SB 360 to preserve a legal defense when repelling an animal attack; members probed differences between self-defense and necessity and discussed examples involving handler misconduct and child attacks.
Senator Shanika Henson presented Senate Bill 360, asking the House Judiciary Committee to consider retaining language from the Joint Preliminary Report (JPR) that frames an affirmative defense in animal-attack cases as a 'defense of necessity.
Henson said the House committee'made additions that strengthened the bill (including explicitly listing horses used in…
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