Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Barlow, I'm going to load you up with two questions because there's not a lot of time. The first clause makes reference to entering “a building or other enclosed place” where animals are kept. My first question is, would this law miss out on protestors who maybe entered a farm, but stayed outside of the buildings and protested there? They're nowhere near the animals, but they're still on the property.
Secondly, when you were going back and forth with the drafters for this bill, I'm wondering about that part of the first clause referring to “knowing that or being reckless”. Did you ever consider leaving that out and just saying that if a person came on where animals were kept and if entering such a place could spread or expose the animals to disease. Did you consider just getting rid of that? I just wanted to know about your back and forth about why that specific language was used.