MO SB55

Replaces the term "buffalo" with "bison" in the statutory definition of "livestock" across six sections of Missouri law (sections 144.010, 262.900, 265.300, 267.565, 276.606, and 277.020)

Affects definitions used for sales tax purposes, Urban Agricultural Zones, meat inspection regulations, animal health requirements, livestock dealer licensing, and livestock market regulations

Makes no substantive changes to which animals qualify as livestock or how they are regulated; elk must still be documented as obtained from a legal source and not from the wild

Livestock definition continues to include cattle, calves, sheep, swine, ratite birds (ostrich, emu), aquatic products, llamas, alpaca, bison, elk, goats, horses, other equines, and rabbits raised in confinement for human consumption