Amend House File 589, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the House, as follows:
   1.  Page 1, before line 1 by inserting: 
   Section 1.  Section 717.2, subsection 2, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  A person who commits the offense of livestock neglect is guilty of a simple serious misdemeanor. A person who intentionally commits the offense of livestock neglect which results in serious injury to or the death of livestock is guilty of a serious an aggravated misdemeanor. However, a person shall not be guilty of more than one offense of livestock neglect punishable as a serious misdemeanor, when care or sustenance is not provided to multiple head of livestock during any period of uninterrupted neglect.>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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MATT McCOY