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H4424 • 2025

An Act relative to rodeos

An Act relative to rodeos

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Sponsor
Agriculture and Fisheries
Last action
2025-09-18
Official status
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act relative to rodeos

An Act relative to rodeos Status: Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

What This Bill Does

  • An Act relative to rodeos Status: Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

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Bill History

  1. 2025-09-18 House

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting

  2. 2025-09-18 House

    Rules suspended

  3. 2025-09-18 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  4. 2025-09-08 House

    Reported from the committee on Agriculture and Fisheries

  5. 2025-09-08 House

    New draft of H139

  6. 2025-09-08 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to rodeos
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

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Bill H.4424

SECTION 1. Chapter 128 of the General laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 2B the following section:-

Section 2B1/2. Rodeos shall comply with all Official Rodeo Rules as appearing in the most recently published edition of the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association Rule Book. For the purposes of this section, “rodeo” shall be defined as “a competition or exhibition in which individuals compete by or showcase skills associated with traditional cowboy activities, including but not limited to bull riding, bronc riding, bareback bronc riding, steer wrestling, calf roping, and team roping, and include the use of animals, including but not limited to bulls, steers, calves, broncs, and horses”.

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