TALLAHASSEE - Broward Sen. Nan Rich's bill to make bestiality a crime is moving toward becoming law, picking up a unanimous committee approval Tuesday.
Florida is among 16 states that don't outlaw sex with animals. Rich's bill would make it a third-degree felony.
"These are heinous crimes and people belong in jail, who commit these kind of crimes," said Rich, D-Weston. "There's a tremendous correlation between sexually deviant behavior and crimes against children and crimes against animals."
The Senate's Agriculture Committee tacked on an amendment that exempts veterinary practices and animal husbandry — raising and breeding livestock — from the law. That prompted confusion from Sen. Larcenia Bullard, D-Miami.
"People are taking animals as their husbands?" Bullard asked, as senators and audience members stifled laughter.
The committee's chairman, Sen. Charlie Dean, explained the difference between husband and husbandry . . .
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