California 2019 Legislative Update: August 6
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See our 2019 Bill Summary here
PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATOR TO SUPPORT OR OPPOSE THE FOLLOWING BILLS
Find your legislator here:
www.pawpac.org/findyourlegislator
Thank you for taking time to write or call to speak for those who have no voice.
For the animals,
René Rowland, Chair
PawPAC
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The legislature will be back Monday, August 12 and bills will be heard in Appropriations starting that morning. All surviving bills have crossed to the other house, so it's time to contact Senators for assembly bills ("AB" bills) and Assemblymembers for senate ("SB" bills). Following are priority bills for this session. Tap on each bill's photo to retweet our tweet.
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OPPOSE
AB 719: ALLIGATOR/CROCODILE TRADE with LOUISIANA
Please see: pawpac.org/ab719facts and contact your Senator to oppose.
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RETWEET OUR TWEET ON AB 719
and tag @Rendon63rd | @SenToniAtkins | @Portantino
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★NEW BILLS NOT PREVIOUSLY REPORTED ★
SB 307 WAS SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR, to protect the Mojave Desert from water interests. (Support) Thanks to the Center for Biological Diversity for bringing this under our radar.
AB 948 was introduced by Ash Kalra, to establish the Coyote Valley Conservation Program, which, among other goals would protect wildlife in the area. Contact your Senator to support.
SCR 62, introducted by Senator Henry Stern, supports a wildlife crossing at Liberty Canyon, which has been in discussion for a number of years. Contact your Assemblymember to support.
We look forward to your messages and calls on any of these issues, or new ones not yet addressed.
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2,959 bills and resolutions have been introduced in both houses as of July 12, 2019, of which about 100 impact animals.
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Additional Assembly Bills (support, unless noted)
• AB 128 (Gloria) Horse slaughter (Sen Appr)
• AB 467 (Horvath/Gonzalez) (OPPOSE) (Sen Appr)
• AB 572 (Kalra) deforestation (Sen Appr)
• AB 1162 (Kalra) single-use plastic (Sen Appr)
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Additional Senate Bills (support, unless noted)
• SB 64 (Chang) microchips (Asm Appr)
• SB 202 (Wilk) blood banks (Asm Appr)
• SB 245 (Chang) veterans, adoptions (PawPAC disagrees with allowing 4 adoptions per year, we advocate for 1 per year) (Consent)
• SB 312 (Leyva) veterans, service dogs (passed Sen floor)
• SB 397 (Glazer) evacuations, pets (Asm Appr)
• SB 580 (Wilk) cruelty (2-yr)
• SB 627 (Galgiani) cannabis (NO POSITION) (Asm Appr)
• SB 787 (Ag Committee) horse protection (Sen —> concurrence)
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• SB 62 (Dodd) Safe Harbor
• SB 469 (Dodd) horse racing
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Assembly, dead or dying (support, unless noted)
• AB 169 (Lackey) Service dogs (Sen susp)
• AB 172 (Voepel) speed limits: OPPOSE (died)
• AB 202 (Mathis) Safe Harbor (died)
• AB 366 (Bloom) blood banks (died)
• AB 486 (Limón) wildfire preparedness (died)
• AB 527 (Voepel) importation of crocodilia: OPPOSE—see also AB 719, now active, to OPPOSE
• AB 611 (Nazarian) sexual abuse (Sen susp)
• AB 700 (Friedman) animal research: OPPOSE (2-yr)
★AB 733 (Quirk) minnow testing (Sen susp)
★AB 889 (Maienschein) animal testing (2-yr)
• AB 939 (Frazier) EPA hearings (amended w/ different content)
★AB 1040 (Muratsuchi) cetaceans (2-yr)
★AB 1230 (Quirk) declawing (died) RETWEET
★AB 1260 (Maienschein) endangered animals (Sen susp)
★AB 1586 (Kalra) dissection (died)
• AB 1828 (Asm GO) CHRB, transparency (Consent)
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SPECIAL MENTION
• AB 773 (Gonzalez) voter education (Sen Appr)
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• AB 1535 (Carrillo) pet insurance
• AB 1565 (Quirk) kittens
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