Subject: Bill Status Report on Animal Welfare Bills for 2012 Session
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| Relating to Domestic Violence Against Family Pets | 10/04/11 | | |||||||
| Domestic Violence Against Family Pets; Providing that a court may issue an injunction for protection against domestic violence granting the petitioner the exclusive care, custody, or control of any animal owned, possessed, leased, kept, or held by the petitioner, the respondent, or a minor child residing in the residence or household of the petitioner or respondent; providing that it is a first-degree misdemeanor for a person to willfully violate an injunction for protection against domestic violence by knowingly and intentionally injuring or threatening to injure any animal owned, possessed, leased, kept, or held by the petitioner, the respondent, or a minor child of the petitioner or respondent; providing criminal penalties, etc. EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2012 | |||||||||
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| Relating to Animal Control | 11/29/11 | | |||||||
| (I: 0654 ) | Animal Control: Requires Board of Pharmacy to adopt rules relating to issuance of permits for certain controlled substances & legend drugs necessary for euthanasia & chemical immobilization of animals; authorizes Board of Pharmacy, at request of Board of Veterinary Medicine, to adopt rule to increase number of controlled substances & legend drugs available to euthanize injured, sick, or abandoned domestic animals or to chemically immobilize such animals; provides that only certain persons are authorized to possess & use such drugs; restricts use of intracardial injection to an unconscious animal; prohibits delivery of lethal solution or powder by adding it to food; requires that an animal control officer, wildlife officer, & an animal disease diagnostic laboratory report knowledge of any animal bite, any diagnosis or suspicion of grouping or clustering of animals having similar disease, or any symptom or syndrome that may indicate presence of threat to humans. Effective Date: July 1, 2012 | ||||||||
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| Relating to Animal Control or Cruelty Ordinances | 11/22/11 | | |||||||
| (S: 0527 ) | Animal Control or Cruelty Ordinances; Requiring a county or municipality enacting an ordinance relating to animal control or cruelty to impose a specified surcharge on the civil penalty for violations of the ordinance; specifying use of the proceeds of the surcharge; prohibiting the governing body of a county or municipality from charging owners of animals more than a certain amount for the spaying or neutering of their animals in specified circumstances; authorizing the animal control authority to allocate certain excess funds to the program to spay and neuter cats and dogs; providing for construction, etc. EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2012 | ||||||||
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| Relating to Animal Control or Cruelty Ordinances | 11/04/11 | | |||||||
| (S: 0488 ) | Animal Control or Cruelty Ordinances: Requires county or municipality enacting ordinance relating to animal control or cruelty to impose specified surcharge on civil penalty for violations of ordinance; specifies use of proceeds of surcharge to subsidize costs of spaying or neutering of dogs and cats whose owners voluntarily submit their animals for sterilization. Effective Date: July 1, 2012 | ||||||||
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| Relating to Animal Shelters and Animal Control Agencies | 11/15/11 | | |||||||
| (I: 0818 ) | Animal Shelters and Animal Control Agencies: Creates "Animal Rescue Act"; requires animal control agency or animal shelter that euthanizes animals to maintain registry of animal rescue groups that are willing to accept animals that would otherwise be euthanized; provides eligibility criteria; provides criteria under which animal control agency or shelter may reject applicant for registry or remove participant from registry; provides application requirements; authorizes animal control agency or shelter to require rescue group or person to provide certain data each month; prohibits animal control agency or shelter from euthanizing animal until animal agency or shelter has notified appropriate animal rescue group or person listed on registry; provides exceptions; authorizes animal control agency or shelter to assess fee for each animal released to rescue group; requires that each animal control agency or animal shelter provide for public information on regular basis. Effective Date: July 1, 2012 | ||||||||
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| Relating to Animal Abuse Registry | 11/02/11 | | |||||||
| Animal Abuse Registry; Cites this act as "Dexter's Law"; creating an animal abuse registry within the Department of Law Enforcement; requiring the clerk of court in the judicial circuit in which a person’s conviction for an animal abuse offense occurred to forward a copy of the judgment document of the conviction and other specified information to the department within a specified timeframe after the date of judgment; requiring that each person registered with the animal abuse registry update his or her registration information each time he or she moves from one residential address to another or, if his or her residential address does not change, annually following the date of his or her first registration; requiring that each person on the registry pay an annual administrative fee to the department; providing that a person who fails to register with the department, fails to update critical information, or fails to pay the annual administrative fee, commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, etc. EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2012 | |||||||||
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| Relating to Euthanasia of Domestic Animals | 11/16/11 | | |||||||
| (I: 0479 ) | Euthanasia of Domestic Animals; Requiring that the Board of Pharmacy adopt rules relating to the issuance of permits authorizing the purchase, possession, and use of certain controlled substances and legend drugs necessary for the euthanasia and chemical immobilization of animals; authorizing the Board of Pharmacy, at the request of the Board of Veterinary Medicine, to adopt a rule to increase the number of controlled substances and legend drugs available to euthanize injured, sick, or abandoned domestic animals or to chemically immobilize such animals; prohibiting the delivery of a lethal solution or powder by adding it to food; requiring that an animal control officer, a wildlife officer, and an animal disease diagnostic laboratory report knowledge of any animal bite, any diagnosis or suspicion of a grouping or clustering of animals having similar disease, or any symptom or syndrome that may indicate the presence of a threat to humans, etc. EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2012 | ||||||||
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| Relating to Animal Welfare | 11/29/11 | | |||||||
| Animal Welfare: Provides legislative findings concerning importation of dogs & cats & importance of determining what programs result in improved adoption rates & reduction in euthanasia rates for animals in shelters & animal control agencies; provides additional records requirements for any public or private animal shelter or animal control agency operated by humane society or government; provides that such records are public records; specifies maximum copying charge; provides vaccination & other health requirements for dogs transported into state for adoption; provides that animal control agencies & registered nonprofit humane organizations are subject to such provisions. Effective Date: July 1, 2012 | |||||||||
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| Relating to Animal Shelters and Animal Control Agencies | 11/03/11 | | |||||||
| (I: 0597 ) | Animal Shelters and Animal Control Agencies; Creating the "Animal Rescue Act"; requiring any animal control agency or animal shelter that euthanizes animals to maintain a registry of animal rescue groups that are willing to accept animals that would otherwise be subject to euthanization; providing eligibility criteria for rescue groups and persons desiring to be on the euthanization registry; providing criteria under which an animal control agency or animal shelter may reject an applicant for the euthanization registry or remove a participant from the registry; requiring that certain specified information concerning an animal rescue group be included in the group’s application for inclusion on the euthanasia registry, etc. EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2012 | ||||||||
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| Relating to Animal Fighting or Baiting | 11/29/11 | | |||||||
| Animal Fighting or Baiting; Specifying examples of animal fighting or baiting paraphernalia prohibited by law; requiring the court to consider certain specified factors when determining whether an object is animal fighting paraphernalia; providing for humane disposition of an animal by a veterinarian licensed in this state under certain circumstances, etc. EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2012 | |||||||||
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