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AL HB481
Bill
Status
4/18/2019
Primary Sponsor
Artis McCampbell
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AI Summary
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Prohibits municipal, county, state, and other publicly owned zoos or wildlife exhibits from importing any species of the family Cervidae (deer) into Alabama.
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Prohibits privately owned traveling zoos, circuses, and pet shops from importing any species of the family Cervidae into the state.
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Amends Section 9-11-328, Code of Alabama 1975, to create an exception to the exemption that currently excludes public and traveling zoos, circuses, and pet shops from wildlife captivity regulations.
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Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and approval by the Governor, or upon becoming law by other means.
Legislative Description
Conservation and Natural Resources, wildlife, possession for public exhibition purposes, importing of deer (cervidae), prohibited, Sec. 9-11-328 am'd.
Conservation and Natural Resources Department
Last Action
McCampbell motion to Indefinitely Postpone adopted Voice Vote
5/23/2019