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SF 613 Senate Long Description

E Modifying certain provisions prohibiting cruelty to animals; expanding the definition of cruelty to include harm, eliminating pain and suffering and excluding certain acts from the definition; defining bodily harm; prohibiting the deprivation of rest; clarifying the prohibitions on overworking animals and on cruelty and certain enclosure restrictions; increasing certain penalties; modifying certain options of the court; excluding licensed veterinarians docking horse tails for public safety or for injury or illness from the prohibition on docking horses; modifying shelter requirements for clipped animals (ra, ja)