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TX H.B. 433 Equating Animal Protection with Terrorism
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TX H.B. 433 Equating Animal Protection with Terrorism
Bill Number: H.B. 433
Bill Sponsor(s): Rep. Ray Allen (R, 106)
HSUS Position: Oppose
Last Action: 2/10/03: Referred to House Committee on Defense Affairs and State-Federal Relations.
* Criminalizes legitimate political and social protests, demonstrations, civil disobedience, and debate by animal or environmental advocates.
* Prohibits anyone from donating money to an animal or environmental organization engaging in these activities.
* Criminalizes the investigative practice of photographing and videotaping an animal or environmental facility.
* Creates a state-run website on which people advocating against animal and environmental exploitation would be identified, photographed, and stigmatized as terrorists, much as states do with sex offenders and child molesters.
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