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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 169

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Relating to: immunity from civil liability for certain equine activities.

Damage _personal injury_ Horses

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, a person who participates in certain equine activities

(related to horses, ponies, mules, and other equines) is immune from civil liability

for his or her acts or omissions if another person is injured or killed as a result of an

inherent risk of an equine activity. An inherent risk of an equine activity is any

condition that is an integral part of an equine activity, including the unpredictability

of the animal's behavior, the failure of a rider to control an animal, or a collision with

an object or another animal.

Current law does not extend immunity if a person provides equine equipment

that he or she knew or should have known was faulty, if a person provides an equine

to a person without making a reasonable effort to determine the person's ability to

safely manage the equine, if a person acts in a willful or wanton disregard for the

safety of a person or intentionally causes the person's injury or death, or if a person

fails to post required safety and warning signs.

Under this bill, equine-assisted learning and equine-assisted psychotherapy

are equine activities for the purpose of civil liability immunity.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Czaja (R) , Edming (R) , Gannon (R) , Horlacher (R) , Jacque (R) , Kapenga (R) , Kerkman (R) , Knodl (R) , Kulp (R) , Petryk (R) , Quinn (R) , Tauchen (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Weatherston (R)

7 cosponsors

Cowles (R) , Farrow (R) , Moulton (R) , Nass (R) , Petrowski (R) , Vinehout (D) , Wanggaard (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 6, Noes 3

Passed 6–3 Nov 13, 2015 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Apr 22, 2015 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Kapenga, Czaja, Edming, Gannon, Horlacher, Jacque, Kerkman, Knodl, Kulp, Petryk, Quinn, Thiesfeldt, Tauchen and Weatherston; cosponsored by Senators Wanggaard, Cowles, Farrow, Moulton, Nass, Petrowski and Vinehout

  2. Apr 22, 2015 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary

  3. Oct 1, 2015 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Oct 29, 2015 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  5. Nov 13, 2015 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 6, Noes 3

  6. Nov 13, 2015 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  7. Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1