Senate Amendments to House Bill No. 576

TO THE CLERK OF THE HOUSE:

  THIS IS TO INFORM YOU THAT THE SENATE HAS ADOPTED THE AMENDMENTS SET OUT BELOW:

AMENDMENT NO. 1

     Amend by striking all after the enacting clause and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

     SECTION 1.  Section 69-13-111, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

     69-13-111.  The owners of livestock which through their owner's negligence are found on federal or state designated paved highways or highway rights-of-way shall be subject to any damages as a result of wrecks, loss of life or bodily injury as a result of said livestock being on the above designated highways. * * *The burden shall be on the owner of any such livestock to prove lack of negligence. This section shall not be applicable to any such highway or highway right-of-way or any type of highway or road located on any levee maintained by the Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners or the board of levee commissioners for the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta through maintenance contracts calling for or permitting pasturage of livestock on levee rights-of-way.

     SECTION 2.  The provisions of this act that place upon the plaintiff the burden of proving negligence in cases involving estrayed livestock on highways are not applicable in any case filed before July 1, 2020.

     SECTION 3.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2020.

     Further, amend by striking the title in its entirety and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

     AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 69-13-111, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CONFORM THE LAWS RELATING TO ESTRAYED LIVESTOCK ON HIGHWAYS WITH MISSISSIPPI NEGLIGENCE LAW; TO CREATE A TRANSITION PROVISION TO BE NOTED BY THE EDITOR; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

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                                                Eugene S. Clarke

                                         Secretary of the Senate