2025 bills / S.B. 77
S.B. 77 Public Safety Animal Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill extends existing criminal protections for police service dogs to other animals that public safety organizations use to help with their duties. It also defines key terms and adds a technical provision so the changes fit correctly with a separate criminal code bill if both pass.
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Official description
- defines terms
- expands and clarifies criminal provisions relating to police service canines to include other animals used by public safety organizations to assist with duties related to public safety
- adds a coordination clause to merge the changes to Section 76-9-306 in this bill, if this bill and H.B. 21, Criminal Code Recodification and Cross References, both pass and become law, due to Section 76-9-306 being renumbered and split into two separate sections in H.B. 21
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 77 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 77 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
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Every vote
- 4 yes, 0 no, 5 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to change the bill · Jan 23, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 5 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 23, 2025Who voted how
- 25 yes, 0 no, 4 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Jan 31, 2025Who voted how
- 28 yes, 0 no, 1 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 3, 2025Who voted how
- 11 yes, 0 noHouse Judiciary Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 12, 2025Who voted how
- 67 yes, 0 no, 8 absentFinal House vote · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how