Senate2025-26 sessionFiscal note
ESB 5065 — Prohibiting the use of certain animals in traveling animal acts.
Signed into law — Chapter 116, Laws of 2025
- Sponsor
- Liias
- Introduced
- January 13, 2025
- Status
- C 116 L 25
- Last action
- Effective date 7/27/2025. (April 22, 2025)
What this bill does
Prohibits persons from allowing specified animals to perform in traveling animal acts, and establishes a gross misdemeanor for related violations.
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Floor votes
- House — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · April 9, 202565 yea · 32 nay · 1 not voting
- Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 7, 202530 yea · 19 nay
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