Two bills (SB 0482 and HB 1472) were recently introduced into the Indiana House and Senate Natural Resource Committees that could potentially ban almost any kind of snake ownership in the state (and would prohibit you from owning a Hippopotamus as well...).

If you're an Indiana resident, or do business with anyone in Indiana, I suggest you take a look at this. Here's a link for each bill:

Senate Bill 0482
http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2007&session=1&request=getBill&docno=0482&doctype=SB

House Bill 1472
http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2007&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=HB&docno=1472#latest_info

There's more discussion going on in the Herp Law and Ball Python forums if you want to read what other people are saying. I've also posted contact information for the Senate Natural Resource Committee members in both of forums and will do the same for the House NRC members later today.

http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1238240,1238240

http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1240050,1240050

Let me know what you think.

Derek

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• Proposed Indiana law could ban Boas! - nduncan73, Fri Jan 26 02:03:00 2007
• RE: Proposed Indiana law could ban Boas! - tonyc, Fri Jan 26 14:10:07 2007
• RE: Proposed Indiana law could ban Boas! - reptilicus81, Fri Jan 26 19:33:46 2007
• RE: Proposed Indiana law could ban Boas! - nduncan73, Sat Jan 27 01:19:43 2007