REFERENCE TITLE: study committee; Salt River horses

State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-second Legislature Second Regular Session 2016

HB 2572

Introduced by Representative Townsend

 

AN ACT

 

Establishing the Salt River wild horse herd study committee.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Salt River wild horse herd study committee; membership; duties; report; delayed repeal

A.  The Salt River wild horse herd study committee is established consisting of the following members who are appointed by the chairperson of the house of representatives committee on federalism and states' rights:

1.  Two members of the senate.

2.  Two members of the house of representatives.

3.  One member who represents a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents and who has experience in veterinary medicine.

4.  One member who represents the college of veterinary medicine at Midwestern university.

B.  The study committee shall study:

1.  The environmental and fiscal impact of the Salt River wild horse herd.

2.  The feasibility and action necessary to actively manage the Salt River wild horse herd.

C.  The study committee shall submit a report regarding the study committee's findings and recommendations on or before December 31, 2016 to the governor, the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives and provide a copy of this report to the secretary of state.

D.  This section is repealed from and after September 30, 2017.