Kansas HB2413 enhances penalties for theft of livestock or implements of husbandry and mandates training on transnational repression.

Kansas HB2413 amends the state's criminal code to classify theft of livestock or implements of husbandry as a severity level 5, nonperson felony. It also mandates the development of training on recognizing and responding to transnational repression. The bill specifies that theft of grain or hay is a severity level 6, nonperson felony. Additionally, it exempts individuals who catch feral cats for vaccination, spaying, or neutering and return them to their original location from certain cruelty to animals provisions.

Kansas HB2413 enhances penalties for theft of livestock or implements of husbandry and mandates training on transnational repression.

Kansas HB2413 amends the state's criminal code to classify theft of livestock or implements of husbandry as a severity level 5, nonperson felony. It also mandates the development of training on recognizing and responding to transnational repression. The bill specifies that theft of grain or hay is a severity level 6, nonperson felony. Additionally, it exempts individuals who catch feral cats for vaccination, spaying, or neutering and return them to their original location from certain cruelty to animals provisions.