Texas - URGENT - Texas

Middle of the night shenanigans in the Texas legislature. Read it and weep - then call, write, do something. Even if you live in California:

The “Other” Breeding Bill

Sen. Whitmire, the chairman of the above Criminal Justice Committee and sponsor of an identical breeding bill, took his campaign to place severe restrictions on kennels a step farther last week.

Whitmire essentially hijacked an unrelated House bill about licensing barbers (HB 2310, sponsored by Rep. Kuempel) and attached about two-thirds of his kennel bill to it as an amendment.

Then, Whitmire convinced the Senate leadership to suspend the rules, brought the bill up for a vote in the middle of the night, got it passed by the Senate and sent it back to the House for concurrence. The House already had passed the part about barbers.

Whitmire’s amendment restores the 11-dog definition of a commercial kennel, and does not include the amendment limiting the amount of compensation to a dissatisfied puppy buyer.

Notice, please, that a puppy mill in one bill is any kennel with 11 intact bitches. In another bill it's 50.

CA AB 241's numbers can be changed at the whim of a pol who listens to H$U$. Think about it.