Update: This bill failed to pass in 2013. It was reintroduced in 2014 as HB 5386.
Bill description: This bill, sponsored by Born Free USA, creates the Lion Meat Act. It provides that it is unlawful for any person to slaughter a lion or for any person to possess, breed, import or export from this state, buy or sell lions for the purpose of slaughter. It provides that it is unlawful to commercialize lion meat. It authorizes the Department of Agriculture to adopt and enforce any rules necessary to carry out the provisions of the act. And it provides that whoever violates any provision of the act shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. Upon passage the bill would take effect immediately.
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View Born Free USA’s report on lion meat here www.bornfreeusa.org/lionmeat.
Read the bill’s full text here.