National animal identification system.

WORKING DRAFT
2008
STATE OF
WYOMING
08LSO-0267

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0119

National animal identification system.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Wallis and Teeters

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
the livestock board; prohibiting state participation in a national animal identification system;
voiding all cooperative agreements and identification lists based on a national animal identification system;
prohibi
ting spending
of
any public funds on a national animal identification system;
repealing the confidentiality of livestock premises and identification records;

authorizing and restricting private animal identification systems and public systems for disease control programs;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

W.S. 11
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18
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119 is created to read:

11
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18
‑
119.

National animal identification system.

(a)

Wyoming

shall not establish nor participate in the national animal

identification system or any other source verification program.

(b)

The prohibition in this section
shall
appl
y
to the components of a

source verification program, including premises registration and data bases,

anima
l identification and data bases
and animal movement tracing and data

bases.

(c)

Wyoming shall not enter into any cooperative agreement

with
the federal government

or
with any
other state
relating
to the establishment of animal tracking, tagging,

registration, or information data bases, premises registration, or information data

bases, use of microch
ips for animal tagging purposes
and other matters related

to the national animal identification system
. A
ll cooperative agreements between
Wyoming
and
the federal government, or between
Wyoming

and
any
other state, established prior to the effective

date of this s
ection shall be withdrawn from or terminated pursuant to the withdrawal or termination clause of each agreement.

(d)

Immediately upon the effective date of this section, any identification

lists or data bases created using, in whole or in part, federal funds under the

national animal identification system, shall be void and shall not be used for any

purpose by any governmental, public, or private person or entity.

This
subsection

does not include lists and data bases that were created solely for the purposes of

addressing specific diseases in specific species of livestock, except to the extent

that such lists have been used for the national animal identification system

program.

(e)

Nothing in this
section
shall be construed as prohibiting
Wyoming

from establishing or participating in disease control programs specifically designed to

address a known disease in a specific species of livestock.

(f)

Nothing in this
section
shall be construed as prohibiting
Wyoming

from operating livestock ide
ntification, brand registration
and inspection programs.

(g)

Nothing in this
section
shall be construed as prohibiting private

agricultural industry organizations from establishing voluntary source verification

programs for their own members or others who elect to participate.

(
h
)

No public funds
shall
be
used to support a
national animal

identification system or any other source verification program
.

(
j
)

A private source verification progra
m identification system, device
or

marking shall not obliterate or supersede or otherwise make unreadable
any
brand or mark on any animal.

A source verification

program's rules
shall
not supersede
Wyoming
's
brand or marking system rules as

a matter of law.

(
k
)

No services, compensation, favors, payments, credits, benefits,

licenses, permits, certifications, insurance or risk management coverage, special

consideration
or other incentives may be provided by any public or private

person, directly or indirectly, to any participant in an animal identification or

premises registration program based solely on that person's participation in such

program.

(
m
)

No services, compensation, favors, payments, credits, benefits,

licenses, permits, certifications, insurance or risk management coverage, special

consider
ation
or other in
centives may be denied, revoked
or limited by any

public or private person, directly or indirectly, based solely on that person's lack

of participation in an animal identification or premises registration program.

Section 2.

W.S. 11
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18
‑
117 is repealed.

Section 3.

This act is effective immediately upon co
m
pletion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constit
u
tion.

(END)

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