Amend House File 589, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the House, as follows:
   1.  Page 11, after line 3 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  Section 717B.3, subsection 3, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   3.  A person who negligently or intentionally commits the offense of animal neglect is guilty of a simple serious misdemeanor. A person who intentionally commits the offense of animal neglect which results in serious injury to or the death of an animal is guilty of a serious an aggravated misdemeanor.>
   2.  Title page, line 1, after<involving> by inserting <the maintenance of animals and crops including those maintained at>
   3.  By renumbering as necessary.

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MATT McCOY