Senate Bill 5 Summary

• Defines "baiting" as attacking, provoking, or harassing an animal with another animal for purposes of training it for animal fighting contests.

• Makes breeding, transferring, possessing, promoting, staging, or attending animal fighting contests or baiting a Class C felony (increased from Class D felony).

• Authorizes seizure of money and property used to commit animal fighting offenses and classifies such offenses as racketeering activity.

• Requires courts to order convicted animal fighting offenders to refrain from owning, harboring, or training animals or residing with someone who does for 10 years after sentencing.

• Makes neglect of a dependent a Class C felony (instead of Class D) when the offense involves violation of animal fighting laws.