May 6th - Calif Animal Bills

Not counting the seal and marine bills (which I haven't looked that closely), there are EIGHTEEN animal bills currently being studied in our CA Senate and Assembly. Most are unnecessary intrusions into our lives:

AB 1122 (Lieu ~ Animal abuse: sale of live animals: flea markets)

AB 1224 (Eng ~ Vehicles: hit and run violations: animals)

SB 135 (Florez ~ Animal abuse: cattle: tail docking)

AB 1437 (Huffman, Florez, Berryhill ~ Shelled eggs: sale for human consumption: compliance)

AB 233 (Smyth etc ~ Personal income tax: deductions: pet adoption costs)

AB 241 (Nava ~ Dogs and cats: breeding for sale)

AB 242 (Nava etc ~ Dog fighting)

AB 243 (Nava etc ~ Animal abuse: penalties)

SB 250 (Florez ~ Dogs and cats: spaying and neutering)

SB 254 (Wiggins ~ Horses: sale, purchase, or transfer)

SB 318 (Calderon ~ Dogfighting forfeitures)

SB 416 (Florez ~ Antibiotics) ~ antibiotics in school lunches

SB 481 (Cox, Steinberg ~ Airports: wildlife)

SB 536 (Hollingsworth ~ Commercial hunting clubs)

SB 609 (Hollingsworth ~ Importation of crocodile and alligator parts)

AB 708 (Huffman, Strickland ~ Fish and wildlife: poaching)

SB 708 (Hollingsworth: Milk: pricing)

SB 753 (Cedillo: Exotic animals: kangaroos)

Today's AB 1122 was not voted on after all, and the author (ASM Lieu) will be meeting with opponents this week and next to fix it up. Hopefully he'll see that even though he does have good intentions - helping animals - animal radical groups including H$U$ and PeTA want to *use him* to further their own agendas (damning every pet breeder in the state for good measure).