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IN HB1602
Bill
Status
1/22/2019
Primary Sponsor
Melanie Wright
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AI Summary
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Defines "animal abuse offense" to include 13 specific crimes: animal abandonment/neglect, animal fighting-related offenses, cruelty to law enforcement/search and rescue/service animals, torture or mutilation of vertebrate animals, domestic violence animal cruelty, bestiality, and electrocution/decompression of animals
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Defines "companion animal" as a dog or cat that is not a service animal
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Requires courts to prohibit anyone convicted of an animal abuse offense from owning, harboring, or training a companion animal as a mandatory condition of both probation and parole
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Amends Indiana Code sections IC 11-13-3-4 (parole conditions), IC 35-31.5-2 (criminal definitions), and IC 35-38-2-2.8 (probation conditions)
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Effective date: July 1, 2019
Legislative Description
Animal abuse. Defines "animal abuse offense" and "companion animal", and establishes as a mandatory condition of probation and parole that a person convicted of an animal abuse offense may not possess, harbor, or train a companion animal.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code
1/22/2019