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Dean Dohrman, Denny Hoskins, dogs, HB 1456, HB 1547, missouri
Great moments in pressing legislative business.
Old Drum, on the lawn of the Johnson County Courthouse in Warrensburg, Missouri.
A bill, introduced on January 16, 2014:
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 1456
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLYINTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES HOSKINS (Sponsor), DOHRMAN, LOVE, WALKER, RICHARDSON AND KELLEY (127) (Co-sponsors).
4488H.03I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 10, RSMo, by adding thereto two new sections relating to the designation of the state dogs.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 10, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto two new sections, to be known as sections 10.112 and 10.113, to read as follows:
10.112. The dog known as “Old Drum”, whose death became the subject of an 1870 Missouri Supreme Court case and the delivery of a famous speech as the closing argument to the case known as the “Eulogy to Old Drum”, is designated as the historical dog of the state of Missouri.
10.113. The dog known as “Jim the Wonder Dog” is designated as Missouri’s Wonder Dog.
[emphasis in original]
Another identical bill, introduced on January 22, 2014:
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 1547
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLYINTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES DOHRMAN (Sponsor), HOSKINS, KOLKMEYER AND MUNTZEL (Co-sponsors).
5191H.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 10, RSMo, by adding thereto two new sections relating to the designation of the state dogs.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 10, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto two new sections, to be known as sections 10.112 and 10.113, to read as follows:
10.112. The dog known as “Old Drum”, whose death became the subject of an 1870 Missouri Supreme Court case and the delivery of a famous speech as the closing argument to the case known as the “Eulogy to Old Drum”, is designated as the historical dog of the state of Missouri.
10.113. The dog known as “Jim the Wonder Dog” is designated as Missouri’s Wonder Dog.
[emphasis in original]
Representatives Hoskins (r) and Dohrman (r). “After you. Oh, I insist, after you…”
Both bills were referred to the Tourism and Natural Resources Committee on January 29th.
I know we were all deeply concerned about this…
Don’t you realize what a job make both of these bills are?
Think of all of the trinkets of Jim the Wonder Dog and Old Drum will now be made (in China?) and sold in shops and pet stores in the respective towns that are homes of these historical and wonder dogs.
We should be high giving each other over such job-making legislation.
I wuz gonna do a state cat bill but it fell asleep on the keyboard.