THE U.P. FOR BOVINE TB
House Bill 5539
Sponsor: Rep. Paul Tesanovich
Committee: Agriculture and Resource
Management
Complete to 5-10-00
A SUMMARY OF HOUSE BILL 5539 AS INTRODUCED 4-25-00
The bill would amend the Animal Industry Act of 1987 to require that all livestock, including live captive elk and white-tailed deer ("captive cervidae"), capable of contracting bovine tuberculosis have a negative official test for bovine TB within 60 days before being moved from the Lower Peninsula to the Upper Peninsula.
MCL 287.708 and 287.730b
Analyst: S. Ekstrom