UPDATED JANUARY 2013
Summary of Major
State Animal Agriculture Legislation
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Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
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Louisiana
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Michigan
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Oregon
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South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Every state (except Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Oklahoma) has a
Consolidated Cruelty Statute.
Twenty-one states have laws concerning humane slaughter.
Initiatives or referendums are allowed in 24 of 50 states.
Measures highlighted in yellow are currently active.
Measures highlighted in blue are effective as of 2012.
Alabama
Law
Title
Animals
Content
Status
SB 104
All animals
Amends existing statues for unlicensed
vet students
HB 561
Livestock
Prohibits local governments from
adopting rules and laws regarding
livestock on private property
Signed into law on
4-27-10.
prohibits the unauthorized possession,
alteration, or destruction of any property
at any animal or crop facility engaging in
scientific research, education, or
agricultural production of or involving
animals and crops
Effective 07/2002
SB 271
Arizona
Farm Animal, Crop, and
Research Facilities
Protection Act
Signed into law on 4/21/10.
Law
Title
HB 2474
Electronic
communication device;
unlawful use
S.C.M. 1001
Equine Resources,
opposing federal
legislation
Animals
Content
Status
Agriculture,
Animal
Abuse/Cruelty,
Animals in
Research
Use of electronic communication device
to commit animal terrorism
Horses
Urges U.S. Congress to oppose federal
legislation to ban the slaughter of horses
and transport of horses for slaughter
Signed into law on
4-27-10.
First Read: 01/17/12
Revised: 2/2/2012
First read: 1/29/2009
Second: 6/8/2009
Last amended: 2/16/2010.
HB 2612
Veterinarian Regulations
All animals
Makes changes to veterinary practice
act. Vet must report abuse and vet
records shall be provided to local law
enforcement on request
HB 2499
Prescriptions, Electronic
Submission by Patient
All Animals
Prescription orders can be placed by email, and fax
Signed into law on
4-19-10.
Juveniles;
Communication Devices;
Sexual Material
All animals
In domestic orders of protection, a court
may grant the petitioner the exclusive
care, custody or control of any animal
that is 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 the
respondent. The court may order the
respondent to stay away from the animal
and forbid the respondent from taking,
transferring, encumbering, concealing,
committing an act of cruelty or neglect,
or otherwise disposing of the animal.
Signed into law on
5-7-10.
Cruel and Inhumane
Confinement of Animals
Pigs during
pregnancy, calves
Prohibits confinement (lying down and
fully extending his or her limbs, turning
around freely)
All animals
Cruelty to animals is considered as a
felony, exclusions: hunting, agriculture
Last amended: 1999.
Horses
A vehicle used to transport equine for
slaughter may have no more than one
tier
Statute revised: 2002.
SB 1266
Proposition 204
A.R.S. 13-2910
Consolidated Cruelty
Statutes
A.R.S. 3-312
Transporting equine in a
cruel manner; violation,
classification, definition
Passed: 11/7/2006.
Arkansas
Law
Title
Animals
Content
Provides legal protection to animal
owners and their animals and ensures
only law enforcement agencies
investigate charges of animal cruelty
SB 13
SB 14
Interference With A
Livestock Or Poultry
Operation
Initiated Act 1
The Arkansas Animal
Cruelty Act
AR H.C.R. 1004
Request for Arizona
congressional delegation
to support horse
processing facilities
Creating The Offense Of Interference
With A Livestock Or Poultry Operation
All animals
Would have increased penalties in cases
of animal cruelty
Horses
Statement that urges the U.S. Congress to
support new horse processing facilities
Status
01/14/2013 Referred to
Senate Committee on
Judiciary
01/14/2013 referred to
Senate Committee on
Judiciary
2002 ballot initiative;
failed with only 37.8% of
the vote.
Governor signed into law
4/6/2009.
California
Law
Title
Animals
Content
Status
Proposition 2
The Prevention of Farm
Animal Cruelty Act
Veal calves,
egg-laying
hens, pregnant
pigs
Animals must be confined only in ways
that allow them to lie down, stand up,
fully extend their limbs and turn around
freely. Exceptions are made for
transportation, rodeos, fairs, 4-H
programs, lawful slaughter, research and
veterinary purposes.
California Health and
Safety Code, Sections
25980-25984
Foie Gras regulations
Ducks, geese
Prohibits the force feeding of a bird the
purpose of enlarging the bird’s liver
beyond normal size.
Enacted: 2004
Effective: 2012.
CA S.B. 135
Ban on Tail Docking
Cattle
Prohibits tail docking tails on cattle
Passed: 9/3/2009.
CA A.B. 1437
Eggs from battery cages
Eggs
Prohibits the sale of a shelled egg for
human consumption from hens not raised
to CA confinement standards
S.B. 416
Pupil Nutrition, Health,
and Achievement Act;
antibiotics
Poultry and
meat products
Encourages school districts to purchase
meat products that are free of nontherapeutic antibiotics
S.B. 562
Human food product;
nontherapeutic antibiotics
All livestock
Beginning in 2011, all food products
from animals given antibiotics for nontherapeutic use would have to be labeled
using a state-mandated local program
Introduced: 2/27/09
Amended: 6/17/09
Would create a registry of persons
convicted of felony animal abuse, to be
available to the public via an Internet
Web site, and funded through a tax on pet
food.
Introduced on 2/19/10.
Held by Senate
appropriations on 5/27/10.
Suspended .
SB1277
Animal Abuse; registry;
internet publication
All Animals
Passed: 2008
Effective: 1/1/2015.
Signed into law: 7/6/2010.
Introduced: 2/26/2009
Inactive: 6/3/2009.
Failed deadline.
Vetoed by Governor
9/25/2010.
Fur labeling
Requires all fur products to be labeled
with a conspicuous tag identifying which
animals the fur came from and the
country of origin
AB 2012
Cruelty to Animals
All animals
Revises the punishment for this offense to
provide that it is punishable by
imprisonment in a county jail for not
more than one year, or in the state prison,
or by a fine of not more than $20,000, or
by both that fine and imprisonment.
CA PENAL 597.7
Animal confinement in
unattended motor vehicle
penalties
All animals
No person shall leave or confine an
animal in any unattended motor vehicle
under conditions that endanger the health
or well-being of an animal
Adopted: 2006.
Adopted: 1994
Amended: 2008.
Adopted: 1994
Amended: 1998
Amended: 2003.
AB 1656
CA PENAL 599f
Nonambulatory animals
Cattle, swine,
sheep, goats
Prohibits a slaughterhouse, stockyard, or
auction to buy, sell, or receive a nonambulatory animal. No slaughterhouse
shall sell meat from non-ambulatory
animals for human consumption
California Admin. Code
1245. 1-16
California Poultry
Slaughter Administrative
Regulations
All poultry,
exceptions:
spent hens,
small game
birds
Humane slaughter regulations- transport,
handling
Introduced 2/26/10
Vetoed by governor
9/30/10.
Proposition 6
CA PENAL 597t
Prohibition of Horse
Slaughter and Sale of
Horsemeat for Human
Consumption Act
Confined animals;
punishments
Animal Cruelty Act
Consolidated Cruelty
Statutes
CA PENAL 597a
Cruelty to animals;
transportation
Horses
Prohibits any person from possessing,
transferring, receiving or holding and
horse, pony, burro or mule with intent to
kill or have killed for human consumption
Passed: 1998.
All animals
An animal kept in an enclosed area be
provided with an adequate exercise area,
if the animal is restricted by a leash, rope,
or chain, the leash, rope, or chain shall be
affixed in such a manner that it will
prevent the animal from becoming
entangled or injured and permit the
animal's access to adequate shelter, food,
and water
Adopted: 1970
Amended: 1971.
All animals,
cattle included
Cruelty to animals is considered as a
felony
Passed: 1983.
All animals
Considered as a misdemeanor to carry or
cause a domestic animal to be carried in a
vehicle in a cruel or inhumane manner, or
authorizes or permits it to be subjected to
unnecessary torture, suffering, or cruelty
Passed: 1905.
Colorado
Law
S.B. 35-50.5-101
Title
Confinement of calves
raised for veal and
pregnant sows
SB 80
Protection Orders Pets
Animals
Amendment 14
Regulation of
Commercial Hog
Facilities
Proposal 13
Uniform Living
Regulations
Animals
Calves,
pregnant pigs
All animals
Hogs in largescale
production
All livestock
Content
Regulation to phase out veal crates and
gestation stalls
Allows a court to issue protection
restraining a party from harming an
animal owned, possessed, leased, kept, or
held by any other party, a minor child of
any other party, or an elderly or at risk
adult.
Regulation of housed commercial swine
feeding operations which can house
800,000 or more pounds of swine or
which are deemed commercial
Sought to create uniform livestock
regulations based on potential
environmental impact rather than the
character of the farm
Status
Approved: 5/14/2008
Veal regulations enacted:
1/1/2012
Gestating sow regulations
enacted 1/1/2018.
Signed into law on
4/12/10, effective on
7/1/10 .
Passed: 1998.
Failed: 1998.
Connecticut
Law
S.B. 123, H.B 5811,
H.B. 5464
HB 5545, SB 494
Title
Animals
Battery
Cages/Confinement
Egg-laying
hens, pregnant
pigs
Content
Prohibits battery cages and gestation
crates
Establishes grant program for five fouryear grants per student class for eligible
state residents enrolled in an accredited
veterinary graduate school.
Status
Introduced 2009
Died, session adjourned.
Signed into law on
4/14/10, 5/7/10.
Puppy Mills and Sick
Dogs Importing
SB 397
SB 274
Tethering
Dogs
Requires commissioner of ag to submit a
report to the joint standing committee of
the General Assembly on the adequacy of
current law in limiting the importation of
sick puppies, including an assessment on
limiting the number of dogs imported
from puppy mills and informing the
purchaser of a dog from a pet shop
licensee of the possibility that a puppy
mill bred the dog.
Public hearing 3-12-10
Failed deadline,
considered dead
3/22/2010.
Dogs
Requires min 100sqft enclosure plus 50%
for each additional dog,. Tethered dog
must have food/water/shelter at all times
and be visible by owner. Outlaws prong
collars. Dogs must be able to move 8ft in
any direction while tethered.
Passed 5/14/2010.
Federal Legislation
Law
Title
H.R. 3704
Downed Animal and Food
Safety Protection Act
H.R. 965
S 1211
H.R. 2966
S 518
S 1053
Animals
Would amend the Humane
Methods of Livestock Slaughter
Act of 1958 to ensure the
euthanization of nonambulatory
livestock at slaughter facilities.
Requires Secretary of Health and
Human Services to deny an
application for a new animal drug
that is a critical antimicrobial
animal drug unless the applicant
demonstrates that there is a
reasonably certainty of no harm to
human health due to the
development of antimicrobial
resistance attributable to the
nontherapeutic use of the drug.
Requires the Secretary to withdraw
approval of a nontherapeutic use of
such drugs in food-producing
animals two years after the date of
enactment of this Act unless
certain safety requirements are
met.
Preservation of Antibiotics
for Medical Treatment Act of
2011
American Horse Slaughter
Prevention Act
Content
Horses
Would outlaw the slaughter of
American horses here and would
stop these horses from being
exported for slaughter
VMLRP Enhancement Act
Authorizes federal tax exemption
for federal and state veterinary
medicine loan repayment programs
Veterinary Services
Investment Act
Establishes a grant program to
meet veterinary workforce or food
protection needs; relieves
veterinarian shortage situations;
supports private practices engaged
in veterinary public health
activities; supports veterinarians
who are participating in or have
completed VMLRP service
requirement
Status
Introduced on December 16,
2011. Referred to House
Subcommittee 01-17-12.
Past versions in 108-111th
Congress sessions have died.
Re-introduced in House and
Senate during 112th session
on 6-15-11.
Referred to the Senate
HELP Committee.
3-14-11 House version
referred to the Health
committee.
10-4-11 Referred to House
Agriculture Committee
-Subcommittee on
Livestock, Dairy and
Poultry.
Introduced on 3-9-10.
Referred to Senate Finance
Committee.
Introduced on 5-24-11.
Referred to Senate Ag
Committee.
Introduced 03-08-11.
Passed House 03-09-11.
Received in Senate, referred
to Senate HELP Committee.
The Veterinary Public Health
Amendments Act
To make veterinary public health
one of the eligible groups for loan
repayment and workforce grants.
Prevention of Farm Animal
Cruelty Act
Would require Federal agencies to
procure food products derived
from certain animals only from
sources that are raised according to
standards similar to California’s
Proposition 2. Animals must have
room to stand up, turn around, and
fully extend limbs - detailed
requirements are not provided.
FY12 Agriculture
Appropriations
Funding for an array of
USDA/FDA priority programsnotably, it did not contain a single
provision that prevents USDA
from providing inspection of horse
processing.
B18 71
Uniform Emergency
Volunteer Health
Practitioners Act of 2009
Enacts the Uniform Emergency
Volunteer Health Practitioners Act
to promote the rapid deployment of
qualified volunteer health
practitioners during declared
emergencies.
Signed into law on
4-26-10.
B 18-521
Human and Environmental
Health Protection
Amendment Act of 2009
Would prohibit use of propoxur
and permethrin in flea and tick
products
Introduced on
11-6-09 Hearing in Comm.
on Govt. Oper. and Env.
on 1-20-10
Approved: 7/30/2010.
H.R. 525
H.R.4733:
H.R. 2112
All animals
Introduced in 111th (2010)
Congress, Referred to House
Subcommittee on Livestock,
Dairy, and Poultry, session
adjourned.
12-2012 Passed House and
Senate.
Florida
Law
Title
Amendment Article X
Section 19
Limiting Cruelty
Amendment: Limiting
Cruel and Inhumane
Confinement of Pigs
During Pregnancy
HB 543, SB 1276
Dangerous Dogs/Breed
Specific Regulation
HB 765, SB 1708
SB 1246
Farms
Animals
Content
Status
Pregnant pigs
No person shall confine a pig during
pregnancy in a cage, crate or other
enclosure, or tether a pregnant pig, on a
farm so that the pig is prevented from
turning around freely
Adopted: 11/2002.
Dogs
Would eliminate the prohibition of breedspecific local government regulation of
dangerous dogs.
Introduced on
12-28-09 and
1-20-10
Died in Committee
5/2010.
Horse Meat
Would make it illegal to knowingly
transport, distribute, sell, purchase or
possess horsemeat for human
consumption that is not labelled and
acquired from a licensed slaughterhouse.
HB 765 passed both
houses as of 4-22-10;
presented to Governor 430-10 SB 1708 was
introduced on 2-4-10,
amended 4/20/10.
Farm Animals
Prohibits a person from entering onto a
farm or photographing or video recording
a farm without the owner's written
consent. Provides a definition. Provides
penalties.
Filed 12/21/2011
Indefinitely postponed and
withdrawn from
consideration- 05/7/11.
HB1021
Farm Animals
Prohibits a person from entering onto a
farm or photographing/video recording
farm without owner’s written consent.
Filed 12/13/2011, passed
out of agriculture
subcommittee.
1/25/12 Dropped.
Georgia
Law
Title
HB 62, HB 234
Education Loans; State
Veterinary Education
Board
HB 692
Uniform Rules of the
Road
HB 529
Local Farm Ordinances
Animals
Content
Status
Clarifies the state’s vet student loan
repayment program to transfer
administration of the program to the
State Vet Education Board. Approved
applicants receive a loan purchase in an
amount to be determined by board. Must
practice in a rural county in Georgia.
Introduced on
1-14-09. Favorably
reported on 3/11/2010.
All Animals
Prohibits transport of any animal in the
bed of a truck w/o min. 46” tall rails
unless animal is cross-tethered or
enclosed; farmers/ranchers exempted
In House for 2nd reading
3/10/2009.
Farm animals
No county, municipality, consolidated
government, or other political
subdivision can adopt or enforce any
ordinance, rule, regulation, or resolution
regulating cropmanagement or animal
husbandry practices .
Passed – 2009.
Hawaii
Law
Title
Animals
HB 77
Foie Gras; Prohibition
HB 1170
Human consumption or
trafficking in dog, cat,or
equine animal meat
Dog, Cat,
Horse
Non-Economic Damages
Dogs, cats,
birds, rabbits
and “other
domestic pets”
SB 73
HB 2772
Veterinary Medicine
Content
Prohibits the possession, sale, or
distribution of foie gras; establishes
penalties
Criminalizes the consumption of or
trafficking in dog, cat or
equine animal meat for the purpose of
human consumption.
Status
Carried over to 2012
session.
Deferred 02-21-2012
Allows up to $25,000 to be awarded to a
pet owner for emotional damages
following negligent injuries to owned
animal
Carried over to 2010
session.
Permits the Board of Vet Medicine to
revoke or suspend a license or fine a
licensee for conduct or practice contrary
to recognized principles of medical ethics
of the veterinary profession as adopted by
the Hawaii Veterinary Medical Assoc.
and the American Vet Medical Assoc.
Signed into law on
4-9-10.
Idaho
Law
Title
SB 1331
Livestock Care Standards
Board
Animals
Content
Livestock
Would create the Idaho Livestock Care
Standards Board to establish proposed
standards governing the care and wellbeing of livestock and poultry in the state.
Status
Passed Senate on
3-1-10.
HB 465
HB 206
HB 210
HB 270
SB 1144
HB 481
S 1316
Would allow various state agencies, a
county prosecuting attorney or a citizen
to bring an action in district court to
enjoin a person from practicing vet
medicine or practicing as a certified vet
technician, certified euthanasia technician
or euthanasia agency without a currently
valid, active license, permit or certificate.
Veterinary Medicine,
Board of
Poultry Regulation
Poultry
Moves permitting and regulation of
poultry operations jurisdiction from the
Idaho Department of Environmental
Quality to the Idaho State Department of
Agriculture
Signed into law on
3-25-10.
Signed into law: 4/5/11.
Right to Farm
Makes improvements to Idaho’s right to
farm law that protects agricultural
operations from meritless nuisance suits
and nuisance ordinances
Signed into law: 4/5/11.
Agriculture Department
Rulemaking
Requires that the Idaho State Department
of Agriculture notify the public and
Legislature when proposing a rule that is
more stringent or broader in scope than
federal law or regulation or when
proposing to regulate an activity not
regulated by the federal government.
Signed into law: 4/5/11.
Animal Care Jurisdiction
Clarifies the role of local law
enforcement agencies and the Idaho State
Department of Agriculture in responding
to animal-care complaints by specifying
that the department is responsible for
production animals, not companion
animals.
Signed into law: 4/11/11.
Pharmacists,
Veterinarians
Extends the period of time in which vets
are required to provide written
confirmation of oral drug orders from 72
hours to 7 days after the seller receives
the order.
Signed into law on
3-18-10, effective
7-1-10.
Animals,
Normal/Accepted
Practices
Criminal animal cruelty laws shall not be
construed as interfering with the humane
slaughter of equines, or normal and
accepted practices of animal
identification and husbandry as
established by, but not limited to,
guidelines developed and approved by
appropriate national or state commodity
organizations.
Signed into law on
3-18-10, effective
7-1-10.
Livestock
Illinois
Law
HB 5143
Title
Farm Photography Bill
Animals
All Animals
Content
Amends the Animal Research and
Production Facilities Protection Act.
Adds definition for "deprive". Changes
current prohibited acts into animal
facility tampering and adds disrupting
operations at the animal facility, if the
operations directly relate to agricultural
production, animal maintenance,
veterinary care, or educational or
scientific purposes. Creates the offense of
animal facility interference
Status
3/9/12 Tabled by sponsor
Rep. Jim Sacia.
HB 1697
Bovine Tail Docking
SB 2011
Egg Production Penalties
and Donation
SB 139
Humane Care For
Animals- Tech
HB 4812
Animals-Horse Meat
HB 583
SB 1337
HB 5377, SB 3712
SB 3604
Animals-Horse Meat
Dairy
Poultry
Horses
Horses
Animals- Farm Animal
Cruelty
Would make several changes to the vet
practice act, including extending the
repeal date from 2014 to 2020. Would
add “complementary, alternative and
integrative therapies; rendering of advice
or recommendation by any means,
including telephonic and other electronic
communications; and performing any
manual or mechanical procedure for
reproductive management, including the
diagnosis or treatment of pregnancy,
sterility, or infertility.” Would revise the
definition of “veterinarian-client-patient
relationship.” Would require a vet to
maintain patient records for a minimum
of 5 yrs from the date of the last known
contact.
Vet Med Practice Act
Animal Welfare to
Livestock Board
Provides that no person may dock or hire
any other person to dock the tail of any
living member of the bovine species.
Authorizes licensed veterinarians to dock
tails if doing so is necessary to protect
the health of the animal.
Provides that in addition to
administrative monetary penalties, the
Director of Agriculture may impose
certain administrative egg penalties
against false, deceptive, or misleading
statement, representation, or assertion
relating to the advertising and selling of
eggs and egg products.
Would provide that unless performed by
a vet for a medical reason, tail docking
and ear cropping constitutes “animal
torture”.
Would repeal the provision that prohibits
the slaughter of horses for human
consumption, and create the Equine
Rescue Assistance Fund.
Would repeal a provision that prohibits
the slaughter of horses for human
consumption and would allow equidae
more than 12 months of age to enter the
state for immediate slaughter without a
certificate of vet inspection.
Would prohibit a person from tethering
or confining any pig during pregnancy,
calf raised for veal, or egg-laying hen on
a farm, for all or the majority of any day,
in a manner that prevents the animal from
(i) lying down, standing up, and fully
extending his or her limbs or (ii) turning
around freely. Exemptions include
examination, testing, individual
treatment, or operation for vet purposes.
Livestock
The Advisory Board of Livestock
Commissioners will be responsible for
approving administrative rules related to
the well-being of poultry and domestic
animals. The board will also work to
prevent, eliminate and control diseases
that affect them. Under the law, the
Illinois Department of Agriculture will
now be required to submit rules and
regulations involving animal welfare
issues that the board previously did not
oversee.
3/7/12 House Floor
Amendment No. 3
Recommends Be Adopted.
04/08/11 re-referred to
Senate Agriculture
Committee.
Introduced on
1-30-09. Referred to
assignments on
8-15-09.
Introduced on
1-12-10.
Second Reading with
House Floor Amendments
on
3-31-09. Re-referred to the
Rules Committee on 4-309.
Introduced on
2-10-09 and assigned to
the Ag and Conservation
Committee on
2-18-09. Re-referred to
Assignments on
3-13-09.
HB 5377 Passed both
Houses as of 4-29-10
SB 3712 Passed the Senate
on 3-17-10.
Effective 2010.
HB 5771
Dog Breeding Puppy
Mills
HB 3841
Puppy Mills
SB 2580
Tethering
Dogs
Dogs & Cats
Dogs
Licenses as commercial anyone; 1) with
10 females 2) who sells any dog to a pet
shop or #) who sells 30+ dogs in a
calendar year. Licenses as breeder
anyone with 6 females. Requires yearly
vet exams. Dogs cannot produce more
than 2 litters in an 18 month period.
Commercial must provide temperature
controlled indoor housing with solid
floors, constant access outdoor exercise
area with shelter
Amends Animal Welfare Act. Requires
pet shops to purchase cats or dogs only
from licensed breeders. Adds license for
Doggy Daycares. Defines Hobby Breeder
as one w/ 6-26 females who sells any
dogs. Defines Large Scale Breeder as
anyone with over 26 females. Requires
pre-license inspection.
Prohibits tethering b/w 10pm-6am.
Requires min. 15 ft lead. Convicted
second time offenders would be charges
with a Class 4 felony including minimum
1 year jail time for each day a violation
continues.
Signed into law:
8/21/2010.
Ended in session.
Amended 3/18/10. Failed
vote 4/8/2010.
Indiana
Law
Title
Animals
Content
Status
Right to Ranch and Farm
Guarantees right to engage in traditional
and modern farming and ranching
practices. Provides that no law shall be
enacted that abridges the right to employ
traditional or modern agricultural
technology, animal production, or
ranching practices
01/07/2013 Referred to
Committee on Judiciary
SB 184
Farm Photography Bill
All Animals
Unlawful recording of agricultural
operations. Makes itunlawful recording
of agricultural operations, a Class A
misdemeanor,for a person to: (1) enter
real property that is owned by another
personand on which agricultural
operations are being conducted; and (2)
takea photograph of or make a video
recording or motion picture of the
realproperty, structures located on the
real property, or the
agriculturaloperations being conducted
on the real property; without the
writtenconsent of the owner of the real
property or an authorizedrepresentative
of the owner.
1/4/12 First reading:
referred to Committee on
Corrections, Criminal, and
Civil Matters.
HB 583
Amendment to the Illinois
Horse
Meat Act
Horsemeat
Would repeal a provision that prohibits
the slaughter of horses for human
consumption.
1/11/11 Adjourned until
next session.
HJR 5
SB 0113
SB 1091
HB 1258
Establishes a three year moratorium on:
1.The start of construction of confined
feeding operations; and 2. The expansion
of confined feeding operations that
increase animal capacity or manure
containment capacity or both.
First Reading 1/05/11,
referred to Committee on
Energy Environment
Affairs.
Session adjourned.
Agricultural Operations
Agricultural operations. Provides that if
a court finds that the prosecution or
defense of a nuisance action brought
against an agricultural operation was
frivolous, the court shall award court
costs and reasonable attorney's fees to
the prevailing party.
3/15/12 Signed by
governor
Pet Stores, Animal
Regulation
Pets and
horses
Requires disclosure statements from pet
stores and a $25 deposit from each pet
sale to go into a commercial breeder
fund. Develops standards of housing for
pet stores. Requires equines to have
shelter from weather free of standing
water. Makes first offense for failure to
provide equine shelter a Class B
infraction and each subsequent offense a
class A infraction
Introduced 1/12/10
Referred to Committee
Failed to pass in the
Senate.
All Animals
Allows the board of animal health to
establish standards governing the care of
livestock and poultry.
Effective July 2010.
Confined Feeding
Operation approvals
SB 343
Livestock
Iowa
Law
Title
Animals
Animals in
CAFO’s
HF28
SF 431
(Formerly SF 341)
SF 2172
HF 589
(Origin: HF 431)
Kansas
Swine
Farm Photography Bill
Content
Status
A bill for an act authorizing counties to
adopt county legislation relating to the
siting of confinement feeding operations
01/26/2011 Sent to
House Agriculture SubCommittee
An Act relating to offenses involving
agricultural operations, and providing
penalties and remedies
12/31/2012 to Senate
Agriculture Committee
Support swine confinement feeding
operations maintaining swine as part of a
farrowing and gestating operation by
improving the biosecurity of the CFO
which provides for the on-site raising of
replacement breeding swine for the
CFO’s sow herd
03/30/2012 Signed by
Governor
Prohibits entering farm facility under
false pretenses for the purpose of making
false statements or representations on an
employment application at the animal
facility.
3/2/12 Signed by
Governor
Law
Title
Animals
Content
Would make evidence of statements or
gestures that express apology, sympathy,
commiseration or condolence
concerning the consequences of an event
in which the declarant was a participant
not admissible to prove liability for any
claim growing out of the event.
SB 374
Status
Introduced on
1-14-10, re-referred to
Judiciary on
2-18-10.
Kentucky
Law
Title
Animals
Content
Status
01/20/2012 referred to
Appropriations & Revenue
02/15/2011 recommitted to
Agriculture & Small
Business
HB 288
AN ACT relating to the
taxation of drugs for
various farm animals
Exempt the sales and use tax prescription
drugs and over-the-counter drugs if used
in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation,
treatment, or prevention of disease in beef
cattle, dairy cattle, sheep, swine, poultry,
llamas, alpacas, buffalos, ratites, aquatic
organisms, cervids, ratite birds, and
equine
HB 347
AN ACT relating to
veterinarians
Provide that veterinarians who report
suspected animal cruelty cases are not in
violation of client/patient confidentiality
requirements contained in the statute.
Animal Care Advisory
Board
Would give authority to establish
standards for the humane care of animals
in publicly funded animal shelters, and to
make recommendations on animal
welfare upgrades to the General
Assembly.
AN ACT Relating to
Agriculture
Establishes the Kentucky Equine Health
and Welfare Council to maintain the
health, welfare, and safety of equines.
Creates the Kentucky Livestock Care
Standards Commission to make
recommendations on standards governing
care of livestock and poultry.
HB 277
HB 398
Horses
03/2011 Posted in
Agriculture Committee,
session adjourned.
Signed into law on
4-12-10.
Popular referendum state, watched by
activists as the Animal Legal Defense
Fund named it “last in animal abuse
laws”.
See note:
Louisiana
Law
HB 1048
Title
Veterinarians
Animals
Content
Would require the LSU School of
Veterinary Medicine to begin increasing
the number of Louisiana residents it
accepts to its program, with particular
emphasis on such residents who have an
expressed and proven interest in large
animal veterinary practice. Would require
the school to give extra weight in its
admissions evaluations to residents who
can demonstrate a long standing
commitment to large animal care.
Status
3-28-10 referred to the
Committee on Education.
HB 201
Crime/Abuse
HB 313
HB 219
Tethering
All Animals
Would create a registry of persons
convicted of certain crimes against
animals.
3-29-10 referred to the
Committee on
Administration of Criminal
Justice
Dogs
Changed the maximum kennel fees into
minimum fees without caps. Allows
unlimited yearly fees
Effective 08/15/10.
Dogs
Establishes tether must be minimum 3x
dogs body length except in trolley
systems, at campsites or during licensed
training activities
Effective 08/15/10.
Maine
Law
LD 1821
LD 1598
LD 97 / HP 83
Title
Animals
Clarifies that antiseptics and cleaning
agents used in commercial animal
agricultural production are exempt from
sales tax. Requires the State Tax Assessor
to post on a list of products for which a
determination on tax exempt status under
this exemption has been made.
An Act Pertaining to
Sales Tax Exemption for
Products Purchased for
Agricultural Use
Strengthen laws against
puppy mills
Content
Status
4-9-10 Signed into law
Egg laying
Hens
Legislative ban on cages for egg laying
All animals
(despite name)
Requires state to recover fees of
relocating seized animals. Makes
probation an option for Class D
infractions. Allows expedited removal in
some cases
Signed by governor-date
unknown.
This resolution proposed to amend the
Constitution of Maine to provide that the
Legislature may not make a change to a
measure initiated and approved by vote of
the people for 8 years after that measure
takes effect if that change is contrary to
the general intent of that measure.
Supported by HSUS.
3/30/11 Dead in Senate.
Amendment to Prohibit
Changes to Ballot
Initiative Decision
Maryland
Law
Title
HB 649
EnvironmentPharmaceutical Disposal
Act
Would prohibit a health care facility,
including a veterinary facility, from
discharging, disposing of, flushing,
pouring, or emptying an unused
medication into a wastewater system.
Introduced on
2-3-10.
Secretary of Agriculture Farm Food Safety
Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture
to establish a farm quarantine for a
specified purpose on a farm infected or
infested with a pathogen; authorizing the
Secretary to examine specified practices
in accordance with specified standards,
designate a specified person to conduct a
specified inspection, and accept specified
assistance from specified federal agencies
Signed 04/10/2012
SB 142
Animals
Content
Status
HB 1333
Torts- Pets- Injury or
Death
SB 505
Pet Stores
HB 675 / SB 254
Maryland Livestock and
Poultry Care Advisory
Board
Dogs
Would eliminate the $7500 limit on
compensatory damages in case of a
tortuous death or injury to a pet.
03/24/10 Unfavorable
Report by Judiciary
Prohibits sale of dogs under 9 months old
04/05/10 Unfavorable
Report by Finance
Would establish the membership and
charge of the Maryland Livestock and
Poultry Care Advisory Board to dictate
farm animal standards in the state.
03/14/11 Unfavorable
committee report,
withdrawn.
Massachusetts
Law
SB 1550, SB 1689, HB
1250
SB 786/HB 458
S 335
HB 1975
HB 344
Title
Animals
Content
An Act relative to
damages for the
malicious injury to pets.
Would provide for non-economic
damages in cases where companion
animals are injured or killed, as well as
punitive damages of at least up $2,500 for
willful, wanton, or reckless acts or
omissions. Damages would be recovered
by a “guardian ad litem” or “next friend”
and payable into a trust for care of the
animal, with any remainder of trust funds
existing at the death of the animal
distributed to a non-profit organization
dedicated to the protection of animals.
HB 1250 would simply provide that in
suits for damages for malicious injury or
the killing of a pet, such damages may
include emotional distress and loss of
companionship.
An Act prohibiting the
cruel confinement of
certain farm animals
Would prohibit confinement of any pig
during pregnancy, calf raised for veal, or
egg-laying hen kept on a farm in a
manner that does not allow them to turn
around freely, lie down, stand up, and
fully extend their limbs, effective 2015.
The bill provides for certain exceptions,
including veterinary care.
Farm animals
Would create a Livestock Care and
Standards Board consisting of farmers,
animal welfare groups, veterinarians and
other interested parties to promulgate
regulations on any aspect relating the
humane treatment of livestock.
Massachusetts Livestock
Care Standards Board
An Act relative to spaying
and neutering of cats
An Act prohibiting
devocalization of dogs
and cats
Cats
Would prohibit a person from owning or
harboring a cat over 6 months old that has
not been spayed or neutered, without a
license and permit for breeding cats or a
health letter from a veterinarian.
Provides that no person shall surgically
debark or silence a dog or cat, or cause
the surgical debarking or silencing of a
dog or cat, unless a veterinarian licensed
in this state has filed a written
certification stating that the procedure is
medically necessary including certain
details. No person except a licensed
veterinarian, using anesthesia, may
surgically debark or silence a dog or cat.
Penalties up to 5 years in prison, or
$2,500 fine.
Status
10/21/12 Discharged to the
committee on Senate
Ethics and Rules for
studies
(786) 07/24/12 referred to
Senate Ways and Means
(458) 08/23/12 ordered to
third reading
03/01/11Referred to Joint
Committee on
Environment, Natural
Resources and Agriculture
07/22/2011 Hearing held.
09/18/10- Senate ordered
study
Signed into law on
4-22-10.
Michigan
Law
Title
SB 1248
Animal Industry Act
(Amendment)
SB 72
Relating to Animal
Feed Operations and
Animal Waste
Handlers
HB 6043, 6042
Gas Chambers
Animals
Content
Status
Swine
Containment regulations for swine raised
outside of an enclosed building;
clarification. Amends Animal Industry
Act of 1988
09/11/2012 Referred to
Committee on Agriculture
Livestock
Environmental protection; water
pollution; CAFOs; require licensing of
animal waste handlers and use of
manifests.
1/26/2011 Referred to
Committee on Agriculture
Dogs and cats
HB 5128, SB 654
H 5708
Infectious and contagious
disease of livestock
Hens, veal,
swine
HB 5127
HB 4324
Livestock
Animals; dogs; proof of
vaccination upon license
application process;
modify.
Animal shelters and registered class B
anima dealers may only euthanize
animals using an injection of
commercially prepared solution and not
by gas chamber
Would create an Animal Care Advisory
Council in the state dept. of ag. To
review, consider and revise speciesspecific, science based, animal care
standards for the On-Farm Certification
Program
An act to prevent the spread of
diseases of livestock; to require persons
to be licensed and bonded by the
department of agriculture; to keep a
producers' proceeds account; to provide
for weighmasters; to provide for the
inspection and disinfection of yards,
premises and vehicles; and to provide
penalties for the
violation of this act
Introduced 4/13/10
Referred to committee
9/24/10.
(5128) introduced 6-23-09
(654) introduced 6-23-09
10/09- referred to
Committee on Agriculture
10/17/2012- signed into
law
Threat of ballot campaign by HSUS, so
eggs and pork groups agreed to
legislation to phase out cages for hens and
gestation stalls for sows and veal stalls
Signed by governor
10/15/2009.
Establishes licensing provisions for dogs
over 4 months of age with lower fees for
spayed or neutered dogs. An owner of a
dog that is required to be licensed shall
keep the dog currently vaccinated against
rabies by an accredited veterinarian with
a vaccine licensed by USDA.
Effective 3-23-10.
Minnesota
Law
Title
SF 1118 / HF 1369
Prohibition of Farm
Facility Tampering
HF 1593
Prohibiting Sale of Live
or Processed Poultry or
Pigs Fed with Feed
Containing Arsenic
Animals
Poultry, swine
Content
Status
Would impose penalties and remedies for
certain agricultural offenses including
animal facility tampering, animal facility
interference (including producing a record
reproducing an image or sound), animal
facility fraud, crop operation tampering,
crop operation fraud and crop operation
interference (including producing a record
reproducing an image or sound).
04/28/11 Author stricken.
1/24/12 Author added.
To reduce human exposure to arsenic by
prohibiting the sale and purchase of
products containing arsenic
(Poultry/Swine supplements)
4/27/2011- introduced,
referred to Agriculture and
Rural Development Policy
and Finance
SF 3212
HF 253
SF 7
Would prohibit the disposal of
prescription drugs containing antibiotics,
prohibit the nontherapeutic use of animal
feed containing certain antibiotics,
establish a surcharge on all commercial
feeds sold that contain antibiotics and
require a label on prescription drugs
containing antibiotics. Nontherapeutic use
is defined as any use of an antimicrobial
drug in animals in the absence of any
clinical sign of disease, including use for
growth promotion, feed efficiency, or
disease prevention.
Antibiotics use and
disposal provisions
modifications
Dog and Cat Breeder
Standards
Dog and Cat Breeder
Standards
3-11-10 Referred to
Health, Housing and
Family Security
Dogs and cats
Licenses and regulates breeders w/ 20+
intact females who sel 5+ litters/year.
Establishes 6+ months as adult. Cats
cannot be housed outdoors. Requires
unspecified socialization b/w humans and
animals
02/16/10 Author added
Ward
Dogs and cats
Licenses and regulates breeders with 6+
intact females dogs or cats, establishes
‘adult’ as 6 months or older. Cats may not
be housed outdoors. Caps ownership at 50
animals
Introduced 1/8/09
Held in committee, failed.
All Animals
Mandates misdemeanor and penalty up to
1 year in jail for 1st offense, felony and 15 years for seconds offense
Died in Committee,
definition of ‘cruelty’ too
vague.
Mississippi
SB 2623
Animal Cruelty
Missouri
Law
Title
HCR 11
MO “Animal Agriculture
Day”
HCR 48
Resolution opposing US
Egg Products Inspection
Act
HB2095
Animal Ecological
Terrorism Act
HB1513
Prohibition against
granting legal status to
animals
HB 1814
Animals
Content
Designates Oct. 3 as “Animal Agriculture
Day”
Opposes the passage of the Egg Products
Inspection Act of 2012, H.R. 3798, which
would nullify existing state law and deny
states the ability to enact laws to regulate
egg factory production
Protects against unlawful use or depriving
the owner of an animal or natural resource
from participating in an animal or natural
resource activity, especially if politically
motivated
Prohibits any state law from providing an
animal a right, privilege, or legal status
that is equivalent to or exceeds those of a
human being
Would include a veterinarian on the
Board of Pharmacy advisory committee
that reviews and makes recommendations
to the Board on rules and regulations
dealing with pharmacy distributors,
wholesale drug distributors, drug
manufacturers, and veterinary legend
drugs.
Status
4/03/2012 - Referred:
Rules, Joint Rules,
Resolutions and Ethics
4/18/2012- Referred to
Agriculture Policy
4/18/2012- referred to
Agriculture Policy
03/08/2012- passed House,
sent to Senate for Public
Hearing, 4/30/2012
05/14/2010 Refer: Spec
Stand Com on Emerging
Issues in Animal Agri (H)
Would require the MO Dept. of Ag. To
register and pay for USDA inspections of
all establishments which process or sell
horse meat or horse meat products for
human consumption.
Requires farm employees who videotape
suspected acts of animal abuse to turn
over the recording to law enforcement
within 24 hours without editing
The constitutional measure would require
a three-fourths vote in both the House and
the Senate, or a vote of the people by
referendum, in order for the legislature to
repeal or amend any voter-approved
initiative.
HB 1747
SB 695
Ballot Initiative
Suspected abuse of farm
animals
Your Vote Counts Act
SB 161
Canine Cruelty
Prevention Act
Proposition B
“Prevention of Puppy
Mill Cruelty Act”
The act changes the name and content of
2010’s Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention
Act to the Canine Cruelty Prevention Act.
The new act removes this prohibition of
ownership of 50 or more dogs. The act
creates additional requirements for
enclosure space size and flooring.
Dogs,
potentially all
due to
ambiguous
language
SB 795
Prohibits any breeder from having more
than 50 breeding dogs for the purpose of
selling their puppies as pets; and creates a
misdemeanor crime of “puppy mill
cruelty” for any violation.
Creates Ag Protection Fund to be used
solely by Dept. of Ag. Creates Animal
Health Fund. Makes it a crime to release
swine on any land not enclosed by fence .
Makes it a crime to posses or transport
any wild-boar, native or otherwise on
public land. Prohibits owning large
carnivores unless already owned and
licensed.
4-1-10 Passed House
04-08-10 Referred to
Senate Agriculture, Food
Production, and Outdoor
Resources
Effective 08-28-2012
(Response to SB 161)
Unsuccessful campaign to
collect signatures ended
March 2012.
04/27/11 Governor signed
into law.
Passed by public vote 114-2010
Amended by SB 161.
Introduced 1-19-10
Signed into law 7-9-10.
Nebraska
Law
LB 204
Title
Concerning Provisions
Related to Reporting
Animal Cruelty; Penalties
LR 278
Studying Emerging
Livestock Disease
Traceability Frameworks
Governing Animals in
Interstate Commerce
LR 295
Studying Regulation of
Livestock Husbandry
Practices That Have Been
Promoted by Animal
Welfare Advocacy Groups
Resolutions adopted by
Kearney, Hastings,
Columbus, Holdedge
and
Nebraska State
Chambers of Commerce
Animals
Animal
agriculture
Content
to change provisions relating to the
reporting of cruelty to animals; to change
penalties; to create the offense of
damaging or interfering with the
operations of an animal facility; to define
terms; to provide penalties; to harmonize
provisions; and to repeal the original
sections.
Interim study to examine the implications
of the emerging livestock disease
traceability framework governing
movements of animals in interstate
commerce described in the Animal
Disease Traceability Comprehensive
Report
Interim study to compile research relating
to food safety, animal welfare, resource
stewardship, and farm economy welfare,
associated with restrictions of livestock
husbandry practices promoted by animal
welfare advocacy groups
A resolution celebrating Nebraska’s ties
to animal agriculture. Supports current
livestock production practices, animal
husbandry and regulations for humane
treatment of food production. Opposes
any current or future actions by
Status
01/17/13 Referred to
Judiciary Committee
10/28/2011 Hearing
05/23/2011 Referred to
Agriculture Committee
Adopted 5/18/11.
organizations that would work to
eliminate livestock for food production.
LB 865
Adopt the livestock
animal welfare act.
LB 910
Change the Commercial
Dog and Cat Operator
Inspection Act
LB 915
Penalties of False
Employment
Livestock
Dogs and Cats
The Livestock Animal Welfare Act
establishes certain livestock cruelty
offenses. Exemptions include certain
commonly accepted practices, and care or
treatment of a livestock animal that
occurs within the scope of a veterinarian
or veterinary technician’s employment.
Revises commercial dog and cat operator
inspection act license fees depending on
the number of animals housed. Requires
licenses for animal rescues under the act.
Change provisions relating to animal
cruelty and create the offense of obtaining
employment at an animal facility with
intent to disrupt operations.
Signed into law on
3-17-10.
Signed into law on
3-17-10, effective 10-1-10
for certain provisions.
04/18/2012- indefinitely
postponed
Nevada
Law
Nevada State Board of
Veterinary
Medical Examiners/
NAC 638
Title
Animals
Content
Requires written notice when an animal
will be left unattended after hours at a
veterinary facility. Makes changes to fee
and continuing education requirements.
Allows veterinary technicians to implant
a subcutaneous identification microchip
into an animal under the immediate,
direct, or indirect supervision of a
licensed veterinarian. Removes selfinspection from requirements for
licensing veterinary facilities.
Nevada State Board of
Veterinary
Medical
Status
Final on
4-21-10.
New Hampshire
Law
Title
Animals
01/03/2013 referred to
Environment and
Agriculture Committee
Would give the board of Vet Medicine
jurisdiction over physical therapists
practicing on animals and require
certification and referral from a licensed
veterinarian.
Passed house on
2-3-10.
Dogs
Adds tethering a dog for 14+ hours in a
24 hour period to the definition of animal
cruelty
Introduced 1/16/10
Voted inexpedient to
legislate.
Swine/Veal
An Act prohibiting the cruel confinement
of certain farm animals (gestation and
veal crates)
Indefinitely postponed
Relative to physical
therapists practicing on
animals.
HM 1639
SB 312
Prohibition on the Cruel
Confinement of Certain
Farm Animals
Status
An act requiring persons who record
cruelty to livestock to report such cruelty
and submit such recordings to a law
enforcement agency.
HB 110
HB 1525
Content
New Jersey
Law
Title
Animals
Content
Status
A 3250
Concerning Cruel
Confinement of Gestating
Sows
A2023
Prohibits Horse slaughter
for human consumption
NJ ST 4:22-15-57
Consolidated Cruelty
Statutes
Swine
Horses
Establishes animal cruelty offense of
cruel confinement of a gestating pig.
Any person who sells, barters, or offers
for sale or barter, at wholesale or retail,
for human consumption, the flesh of a
horse or any product made in whole or in
part from the flesh of a horse commits a
disorderly persons offense
09/24/2012 Referred to
Assembly Agriculture and
Natural Resources
Committee
9/19/2012 Approved
Adopted: 2006.
All farm
animals
Establishes humane standards for farm
animals
Would establish the Office of Animal
Welfare in the Dept. of Health and Senior
Services to oversee the care, housing, and
shelter of animals and the protection of
animals from animal cruelty in all its
forms.
10/16/2008 Introduced,
Referred to Assembly
Agriculture and Natural
Resources Committee.
A 861
This bill would require license suspension
of certain health care professionals,
including veterinarians, as well as
medical waste facilities, generators, and
transporters for willful illegal or improper
medical waste disposal.
Introduced on
1-12-10
Reported out of assembly
10-18-2010.
A 1920
Would create a statutory right of action
for economic damages for the owner of a
domestic companion animal that has been
injured or killed by another person's
domestic companion animal, if the court
determines that the owner or keeper of the
animal causing the injury or death did not
exercise reasonable care in restraining,
properly caring for, or supervising the
control of the animal causing the injury or
death.
Introduced on 2-8-10,
pending assembly of ag
committee.
A 3298
All Animals
Concerning domestic
companion animals and
supplementing Title 4 of
the Revised Statutes.
A 1518
Dogs
Prohibits tethering a dog b/w 10pm-6am.
Prohibits tethering for more than 1 hr b/w
6am-10pm or more than 6hrs on a trolley
system. Prohibits tethering with prong or
choke collars or a leash under 10ft long or
more than 1/8 the dogs body weight
Introduced January 2010
Referred to committee.
New York
Law
Title
Animals
Content
A0424
Extreme confinement of
farmed animals;
prohibition
Livestock
Prohibits any person to tether or confine
any pig during pregnancy, calf raised for
veal, or
egg-laying hen who is kept on a farm for
all or the majority of any day in a manner
that prevents such animal from lying
down, standing up and fully extending its
limbs and turning around freely
A1076
Tail docking, prohibition
Livestock
Prohibits tail docking in horses and cattle
Status
01/09/2013- Referred to
Agriculture Committee
01/09/2013- Referred to
Agriculture Committee
S0456
A1725
S 5172
S3178
A8163
Force-feeding birds
Downed Animals
Geese
Livestock
A new section of the agriculture and
markets law is created to establish the
crime of unlawful tampering with a farm
animal, similar to the crime of unlawful
tampering with an animal research
facility in existing law. Nothing in this
legislation would interfere, impede, or
condone in any way any lawful
investigation or enforcement action by
the appropriate authorities.
Unlawful Tampering with
Farm Animals
Ban on Horse Slaughter
Intensive Confinement
Regulations
S6461, A9562
Veterinary medicine and
dental conditions
A 8597A
Prevention of farm
animal cruelty act
AB 2118
Prevention of Farm
Animal Cruelty Act
AB 9449
Confinement of animals
A 2711
Companion animal – tort
action
A 255
Micro Chipping of all
dogs and database
Makes it unlawful to force feed birds, but
hand or machine, for the purpose of fatty
enlargement of such bird’s liver
Prohibits any person from transporting,
holding, buying, selling, giving,
receiving or marketing a nonambulatory
animal unless such animal is first
humanely euthanized
Horses
Prohibits horse slaughter or sale of
horseflesh for human consumption
Veal calves,
egg-laying
hens, pregnant
pigs
Prohibits any person to tether or confine
any pig during pregnancy, calf raised for
veal, or egg-laying hen who is kept on a
farm for all or the majority of any day in
a manner that prevents such animal from
lying down, standing up and fully
extending its limbs and turning around
freely
Would include the diagnosis and
treatment of dental conditions within the
definition of the practice of veterinary
medicine.
Companion
animals
Dogs
Would provide strict standards for raising
and breeding farm and livestock animals.
Prohibits confinement (gestation crates),
force feeding (foie gras) stacking cages
more than 2 high, excessive breeding
(puppy mills),
Pertains to confinement of certain
animals for food producing purposes;
prohibits any person to tether or confine
any pig during pregnancy or calf raised
for veal for all or the majority of any day
in a manner that prevents such animal
from lying down, standing up and fully
extending its limbs and turning around
freely
Would establish a cause of action for the
wrongful injury or a death of a
companion animal, including recovery
for loss of reasonably expected society,
companionship, comfort, protection and
services to the owner.
Would require micro chipping of all dogs
by the age of four months, excluding
temporarily kept dogs. Would create a
state registry to maintain contact
information.
01/09/2013 Referred to
Agriculture Committee
01/04/2012 Referred to
Agriculture Committee
01/04/12 Referred to
Agriculture Committee.
6/10/2010 Referred to
Consumer Protection
Committee
Referred to Ag Committee
1-6-10.
4/26/10 (9562) Passed
Assembly.
4/27/10 (6461) substituted
by AB 9562
1/19/2010 Amendment
and recommit to Ag.
01/04/2012 Referred to
agriculture
03/01/2012 Referred to
agriculture
1/6/10 Referred to
Committee on Judiciary
on.
Enacting Cause stricken
on 4-13-2010.
A 5957, S 2884
A 7218
A 7285
SB 4515
Prohibits docking of dog
tails
Puppy Mills
Puppy Mills
AB 11684
Devocalization
A 6046
Tethering of Dogs
AB 5985
Would establish a loan forgiveness
program for large animal veterinarians
who agree to practice in shortage areas in
the state.
Large animal vet loan
program
Dogs
Would prohibit the docking of dog tails
for reasons other than to protect the life
or health of the dog as deemed necessary
by a licensed veterinarian. The bill also
provides penalties for any person who
shows or exhibits a dog whose tail has
been docked, and those who encourage,
procure, or sponsor an exhibition where
dogs with improperly docked tails are
shown. These provisions would not apply
to dogs that have been certified as tail
docked prior to August 1, 2009.
1-6-10 Referred to the
respective Committees on
Higher Ed
1-6-10 Referred to
Committee of Ag.
Dogs and cats
No person or business may possess,
control or have custody of more than 50
intact dogs or cats. Violation is a
misdemeanor. Officials may seize
animals in violation
1/6/10 Referred to
Committee on Ag
All animals?
Defines a breeder as one who breeds 3 or
more animals for sale or profit. Requires
license. Facility must be temperature
controlled with impervious floors and
record keeping. Animals must be fed 2x a
day. Establishes a breeder license fund.
Requires breed license # on
advertisements.
1/16/10 Referred to
Committee on Ag
Cats and dogs
Prohibits the devocalization of cats or
dogs unless a vet determines that it is
medically imperative. Only vets can
perform devocalizations and records must
be kept for a min. 4 years post procedure
Introduced and referred to
committee 8/4/2010.
Dogs
NO dog may be tethered to a fixed point
or a trolley system for more than 6 hours
per day
1/16/10, Failed in
Committee.
Eliminate the 21-year limit for the
duration of pet trusts and instead provides
that the trust will terminate when the
beneficiary or beneficiaries of such trust
are no longer alive.
Duration of pet trusts
limit exemptions
Signed into law on
5/5/10.
North Carolina
Law
Title
Animals
Content
Status
H 816
H610
S 460
Animal Welfare Advisory
Board/Fund
An act to establish the animal welfare
advisory board and the spay/neuter
donation and memorial fund to promote
animal welfare initiatives and to oversee
the expenditure of funds
Hog Lagoon Phase
Out/Livestock Treatment
An Act to phase out traditional animal
waste management systems that serve
swine farms and to establish minimum
humans standards for the treatment of
cows, poultry, and swine
Commercial Dog
Breeders
Livestock
Dogs
Requires anyone with 15+ females be
licensed as commercial breeder including
annual vet inspections and random
inspections. Must meet USDA kennel
standards
06/02/11 Referred to
Senate Committee on
Agriculture.
04/05/2011 Referred To
Committee On Rules,
Calendar, and Operations
4/29/10 Referred to House
Committee on Finance
North Dakota
Law
SB 2365
Title
Animals
Legislative Management
Study – Humane
Treatment of Animals
Content
Status
Amendment called for legislative
management to consider studying laws
pertaining to the humane treatment of
animals for the purpose of reviewing
their content and their applicability to
domestic or companion animals and to
animals in production agriculture, and
recommending necessary policy changes
to laws that are found to be irrelevant,
inconsistent, illogically arranged, not
reflective of current practices or needs, or
unclear in their intent and direction
04/01/11 Failed in House
Agriculture Committee.
Ohio
Law
Title
HB 14 (HB 79)
To remove pit bulls from
the definition “vicious
dog” in state legislature
HJR 2, SJR 6
Ohio Livestock Care
Standards Board
HB 70
Felony Cruelty
HB 414
Animals
Pit Bulls
All livestock
All Animals
Livestock
Content
Would remove pit bulls from the
definition of “vicious dog” in the
dangerous dog statues.
Status
Effective 05/22/2012
established Board to ensure excellent
animal care while promoting the
economic viability of Ohio’s animal
agriculture community, family farms, and
the continued availability of a safe,
locally grown, and affordable food
supply. OLCSB regulations should
promote sound science, good
stewardship, and a process that is fair to
all producers
7/6/09 Amended with
compromise
Established 2010.
Makes depriving an animal of food, water
or shelter a felony to the fifth degree
Introduced 3/10/09
Passed 2/24/10.
Implements the new constitutional
provision voters approved in 2009 by
ballot initiative. Establishes the
requirements and responsibilities of the
Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board
Effective 3/31/10
and the Director of Ag. in administering
and enforcing the rules that govern care
of livestock, including funding and
inspections.
HB 96
SB 95
To require the inclusion
of a bittering agent in
engine coolant and
antifreeze.
Would require inclusion of a bittering
agent in engine coolant and antifreeze
manufactured after 1-1-11.
12/17/09 Referred to
Senate. Committee On
Comm. and Labor.
Licensing and standards
for kennels, dog
intermediaries and
rescues
Defines a breeding dog as any intact dog
requiring anyone with intact animal to
obtain a license, insurance, bonds and a
background check. Requires all litters to
be sold be registered with the State for a
fee. Females are limited to 1 litter/year.
Mandates certain vet procedures.
Establishes a Kennel Control Authority of
6 people none of whom are breeders.
Proposed in 2009. Died in
House, substitute
proposed.
Dogs
Oklahoma
Law
Title
SB 1716
Penalties for cutting
fencing containing
livestock
HB 1306
Oklahoma Livestock Care
Standards Board
HB 1957
Regulating and Licensing
of Swine Feeding
Operations
Animals
Content
Provides punishment for damaging fences
used for the production or containment of
animals
Swine
This bill would allow the Oklahoma
Department of Agriculture, Food, and
Forestry to administer and enforce farm
animal care standards. The State Board
of Agriculture will be directed to
promulgate rules to administer and
enforce the standards. The Board would
include 15 members, including the
Commissioner of Agriculture, state
veterinarian, and representatives from
animal agriculture.
Prohibiting new licenses for certain swine
feeding operations; requiring swine
feeding operations applying for
groundwater use permits to obtain
Department certification
HB 2791
The bill sets maximum loan amounts for
certain eligible agricultural businesses
including persons establishing a
veterinary practice in which at least 30%
of the practice consists of services for
large animals. The bill would provide the
total loan amount for such practice shall
not exceed $250,000.
HB 2345
Would create the Oklahoma Livestock
Care Standards Board for the purpose of
establishing standards governing the care
and well-being of livestock and poultry.
The Board would be comprised of 13
members, including the State Veterinarian
and one other licensed veterinarian.
Agriculture; creating the
OK livestock care
standards board.
Livestock
Status
05/08/2012 Referred to
Committee on Natural
Resources
02/08/11 Referred to
Appropriations and Budget
Committee, session
adjourned 5/27/11 with no
further action taken.
Effective Nov. 1, 2011
06/06/2010 Signed by
Governor
Passed House on
3-9-10.
Passed Senate on
4-8-10.
Died in conference.
HB 3202
Professions and
occupations, relating to
the OK Veterinary
Proactive Act; adding
definition for teeth
floating.
SB 1712
Professions and
occupations; creating the
Commercial Pet Breeders
Act.
HB 2827
Criminal procedure;
authorizing victim of
crimes to request
emergency temporary
order of protection.
Horses
Removes acts of "animal husbandry,"
teeth floating and farriery from the
definition of veterinary medicine.
Establishes a certification mechanism for
non-veterinary equine dental care
providers, allowing them to perform teeth
floating on equines and other farm
animals. If prescription drugs are used, a
veterinarian may assemble those drugs
and allow the owner or the non-veterinary
provider to pick up and deliver the drugs
to the owner. No prescription drugs shall
be prescribed, dispensed, or administered
without the establishment of a valid
client-patient relationship between the
equine owner and the veterinarian.
Creates the Commercial Pet Breeders Act
and establishes the Commercial Pet
Breeders Board. Regulates breeders of 11
or more female cats or dogs, requires
licensing and inspections, authorizes the
Board to adopt rules relating to breeding
practices, and sets criminal penalties.
Allows the petitioner of a protective order
to request the exclusive care, possession,
or control of any animal owned,
possessed, leased, kept or held by the
petitioner, defendant or minor child
residing in the residence of the petitioner
or defendant.
HB 1641
Pets
Authorizes trusts for the care of
designated domestic or pet animals.
Effective 8/2010
Effective 7/1/11
Effective 11/1/2010.
Signed 5/10/2010
Oregon
Law
Title
HB 3006
Dairy Animal Welfare
Board
SB 694
Gestation Crate Ban
SB 805
Ballot Initiative
Housing for Egg-Laying
Hens
Caged Hen Measure
Animals
Content
Status
Dairy
Authorizes Board to submit comments
based on most recent scientific data to
Legislative Assembly on legislation,
administrative rules, ballot measures, and
Supreme Court decisions that impact
dairy animal care, welfare or husbandry
or agricultural practices affecting dairy
animals.
In Subcommittee on
Natural Resources, public
hearing held 5/12/11
06/30/11- In committee
upon adjournment
Pregnant pigs
First-ever legislature approved bill
banning use of gestation crates
Adopted: 6/28/2007
Effective: 2012.
Poultry
Requires all enclosures built after January
2012 meet certain standards established in
American Humane Association's farm
animal welfare certification program.
Prohibits person from selling eggs or egg
products that person knows, or reasonably
should know, are product of such
confinement.
06/17/11 Governor Signed
into Law, Effective July
2015.
Poultry
The initiative would apply to the sale of
all eggs including those purchased in
cartons in the grocery store, as well as
liquid eggs and egg products as already
defined in Oregon statute. It would
mandate cage-free housing for all egglaying hens and would take effect in
2019.
Dropped in July 2011 after
UEP-HSUS deal.
OR ST 167.310-390
Offenses against animals
All animals,
cattle included
The term "assault" is used to define
certain crimes against animals, animal
abuse may be elevated to a felony offense
if the act was committed directly in front
of a minor child or if the perpetrator was
previously convicted of domestic
violence
Happy Valley and
Washington County
Animal Control
Ordinance 6.04.040
Livestock and poultry
Cattle, horses,
goats, poultry
Restricts placement of slaughterhouses
and size requirements for housing of
livestock
Title
Animals
Content
Adopted: 1986
Amended: 2008
Additional statutes added.
Adopted: 1968
Amended: 1980.
Pennsylvania
Law
SB 443
SB 1225
SB 1417
Status
Prohibits the administration of certain
antimicrobial agents in agriculture;
providing for inspection and testing of
agricultural operations, for enforcement,
for reporting by agricultural operations
and for alternatives to administration of
antimicrobial agents to animals; and
making related repeals.
02/07/11 Referred to
Senate Agriculture and
Rural Affairs Committee.
Amends Vet Medicine
Practice Act
Would require a veterinarian to provide a
client information sheet to the owner of
the animal in cases of dispensing
prescription drugs that will be
administered by the owner in an
outpatient setting.
2-4-10 Referred to
Consumer Protection and
Professional Licensure
Amendment to the “Dog
Law”
Provides further definitions, for issuance
of dog licenses, for revocation or refusal
of kennel licenses, for seizure and
detention of dogs, for provisions relating
to dog bites and for disposition of fines
and penalties.
6/23/10 Introduced and
referred to Agriculture and
Rural Affairs
Defines trespass and/or vandalism on
posted agriculture biosecurity areas as
ecoterrorism and a felony
Signed into Law
11/22/2010
Requires a veterinarian to provide
euthanasia to relieve animal suffering;
notify a client before terminating care of
a client's animal; and explain the benefits
and significant potential risks of
treatment options and obtain written
consent to euthanasia and treatments that
have significant risks. Provides details
about the veterinarian's duty to protect
the personal privacy of clients.
Final on 4-20-10.
Prohibiting the
administration of certain
antimicrobial agents
Livestock
Dogs
SB 906
State Board of Vet.
Medicine/49 PA Code,
Chapter 31, Sec. 31.21,
Rules of Professional
Conduct
Rhode Island
Law
SB 2191
Title
Unlawful Confinement
Animals
Veal calves
and sows
Content
AN ACT RELATING TO ANIMALS
AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY -UNLAWFUL CONFINEMENT OF A
COVERED ANIMAL (would prohibit
the unlawful confinement of calves raised
for veal or sows during gestation.)
Status
06/19/2012 Signed by
Governor
H 8173
Livestock Welfare and
Care Standards Advisory
Council Act of 2012
Creates Advisory Council for livestock
welfare and care standards
06/21/2012 Signed by
Governor
Would provide that a person shall not
tether or confine on a farm any pig during
pregnancy, calf raised for veal, or egglaying hen, for all or the majority of any
day, in a manner that prevents the animal
from (1) lying down, standing up, and
fully extending its limbs; and (2) turning
around freely. Exemptions include
veterinary treatment.
2/25/10 referred to
Judiciary Committee. Held
for further study.
Animal Abuser Registry
Would create an animal abuser registry
and would provide for penalties for
failure to register.
Introduced on
2-25-10. Held for further
study.
Tethering
Dogs
Prohibits tethering a dog for more than
one hour a day. Authorizes RI-SPCA to
enter property, investigate and enforce
bill
Introduced 1-3-10
June 2 2010 - Referred to
House Judiciary.
Dogs
Prohibits tethering for more than one hour
each day or leaving a dog in an outside
enclosure for more than 14 hours a day.
Authorizes RI-SPCA to enter property,
investigate and enforce bill
H 7769
H 7768
S 2023, 2022
HB 7319
Livestock
Tethering
04/14/2010 Referred to
House Committee on
Judiciary. Held for further
study
South Carolina
Law
HB 3265
Title
Animals
Content
Would provide for a veterinary exemption
from animal cruelty laws for accepted
veterinary practice standards.
Animal Cruelty
Status
Introduced on
1-14-10 and referred to
Committee on Ag. Nat.
Res. & Environ. Affairs.
South Dakota
Law
HCR 1006
Title
Animals
Content
Concurrent resolution in opposition to
certain actions by animal rights groups,
specifically HSUS and PETA, to undermine
agricultural producers through ballot
initiatives.
Prohibits the killing, injury or interference
with a law enforcement support animal and
establishes penalties. The new section does
not apply to a law enforcement officer or a
veterinarian who terminates the life of a
law enforcement support animal to relieve
the animal of undue suffering and pain.
Anti-Activist Resolution
HB 1187
Status
Passed unanimously in
Senate and House
February 2012.
Signed into law on
3-29-10
H.C.R. 1007
Horse Slaughter
Horses
Supports the need for USDA inspected
horse slaughter plants in SD
Adopted: 2/2/2008.
S.B. 114
Horse Slaughter Study
Horses
Provides for a study of the feasibility of
establishing a horse slaughter plant in SD
($100,000)
Failed: 2008.
S.B. 44
Repeal tax exemptions of
animal fee, fur-bearing
animals
All livestock
and poultry
Repeals tax exemption of livestock and fur
animals
Failed: 2009.
Tennessee
Law
Title
Animals
HB 3491
Non livestock
animals
SB 2796
HB 3540, 3913
SB 3386, 3576
HB 3676, 3760
Animals and Animal
Cruelty
All animals
Animal Cruelty
All Animals
Animals and Animal
Cruelty
All animals
Content
Amends the definition of practice of
veterinary medicine. Exempts use of
manual procedures for testing of pregnancy
in bovine animals when performed by a
farmer who is not compensated by the
owner other than by the exchange of
services for or the use of equipment, and
the results are for the owner's use only and
does not affect commerce. Revises the
definitions for consultation and
veterinarian-client-patient relationship.
Good Samaritan law applicable to medical
care for non-livestock animals.
Veterinarians and ancillary staff are
protected from civil liability to the owner
of the animal under certain circumstances.
Creates a Class A misdemeanor for a
person previously convicted of animal
cruelty if such person violates animal
custody rules as set forth
Increases the penalty for aggravated animal
cruelty to Class E penalty w/ no less than 1
year and no more than 6 years in prison and
possible fine of no more than $3000.
Requires psychological counseling
Makes an offense which results in serious
injury or death of an animal a Class E
felony
Status
Signed into law 4-19-10
Signed into law 4-16-10
Signed into law 4/20/10
Introduced 1/29/10 Failed
in committee.
Referred to committees.
Texas
Law
HB 334
Title
Texas Livestock Care
Standards Advisory
Committee
Animals
Livestock
Content
Would establish the Texas Livestock Care
Standards Advisory Committee. The
committee would be required to research
and develop standards governing livestock
and poultry care, food safety, local food
availability, food affordability, and best
farm management practices for animal
well-being.
Status
02/15/11 Referred to
House Agriculture and
Livestock Committee.
Utah
Law
H.B. 187
Title
Agricultural Operation
Interference
Animals
Content
Provides that a person is guilty of
agricultural operation interference if the
person, without the consent of the owner of
the operation, records an image of, or
sound from, an agricultural operation while
on the property where the agricultural
operation is located; and
establishes penalties.
Status
Signed into law 3/22/12
HB 155
Agricultural Advisory
Board and Livestock
Related Policy
SB 218
Engine Coolant Bittering
Agent Act
HB 28
Controlled Substance
Database Amendments
HB 107
Animal Shelter
Amendments
HB 285
Practice of Veterinary
Medicine
Expands duties and membership of
Agricultural Advisory Board to encompass
issues related to care of livestock and
poultry. The Board, which includes a
member of the UVMA, may consider food
safety, local availability and affordability
of food, and acceptable practices for
livestock and farm management.
Requires a bittering agent to be added to
engine coolant with some exemptions, as
of 1/1/11.
Creates the Controlled Substance Database
Act but excludes veterinarians from
registration and training requirements.
Provides governing body of a county or
municipality discretion to determine
whether to make an impounded animal
available to be used for research or
educational purposes. Prohibits the
provision of an animal for research or
educational purposes unless the animal has
been legally impounded for at least five
days or a longer period as provided by
local ordinance, the animal has not been
claimed or redeemed, and the animal
shelter has made a reasonable effort to find
the rightful owner of the animal and to
make it available to others.
Amends definition of practice of veterinary
medicine to include dispensing any drug,
medicine, treatment, method, or practice.
Signed into law 3-23-10
Signed into law 3-25-10
Signed into law 3-29-10
Signed into law 3-26-10
Signed into law 3-25-10
Vermont
Law
Title
SB 239
Requirements for Humane
Treatment and Slaughter
of Animals
H 367
Requiring Labeling of
Genetically Engineered
Food Products
H 52
Regulating that Which is
Defined as a Poultry
Product
SB 230
An Act Relating to
Humane Slaughter of
Livestock
HB 633
Animals
Livestock
Content
This bill proposes to prohibit the
confinement of sows during gestation and
to ensure the humane slaughter of animals
by itinerant slaughterers.
Require all genetically engineered food
offered for sale in Vermont to be labeled as
such
Amends the definition of poultry product so
that the slaughter of quail, pheasant, and
partridge would not be subject to state
slaughter inspection to coincide with
federal slaughter regulations for
nonamenable species
Would provide that an inspector that is a
representative of HSUS, a Vermontdomiciled humane society, or similar
organization approved by rule, shall be
present to observe the slaughterer, packer,
or stockyard operator when engaged in the
practice of bleeding or slaughtering
livestock. Inspectors would be required to
report any violations of the humane
slaughter rules, and an investigation of any
alleged violations must be completed within
5 days of the report.
Would reduce the sales and use tax from
6% to 3.5%, but include veterinarian and
animal specialty services.
Status
03/21/2012 Referred to the
Committee on Agriculture
03/08/2011 Referred to
House Agriculture
Committee
04/28/2011 Signed into
law
Prefiled on 12/21/09. Read
and referred to Committee
on Agriculture on 1/5/10.
Introduced on
1-29-10.
Virginia
Law
Title
Animals
Content
Status
H Resolution 567
Designating the last full week in
April, in 2013 and in each
succeeding year, as VegWeek in
Virginia.
01/15/2013 Referred
to House Committee
on Rules, tabled
SB 610
Livestock
– and dogs
Provides that the Department of
Agriculture and Consumer
Services occupies the entire field
of regulation of the care and
handling of agricultural animals
and that no locality or humane
society shall do so. Lists dogs as
agricultural animals.
02/02/12 Continued
to 2013 Committee
on Agriculture
Livestock
Provides standards of care
specifically for agriculture animals
that ensure accommodation for
customary farming activities. The
bill also clarifies certain
procedures for the seizure and
impoundment of agricultural
animals.
03/28/2011 Signed
into law
Livestock
Provides standards of care
specifically for agricultural
animals that ensure
accommodation for customary
farming activities. An owner of an
agricultural animal would be
required to provide feed to prevent
malnourishment, water to prevent
dehydration and veterinary
treatment as needed to address
impairment of health or bodily
function when such impairment
cannot be otherwise addressed
through animal husbandry.
4/29/2011 Signed
into law
Cats and
Dogs
Provides an exemption for rabies
vaccinations for animals who
suffer from an underlying medical
condition that is likely to result in
a life-threatening condition in
response to vaccination and such
exemption would not risk public
health and safety.
Effective 7-1-10
All
Animals
Provides that any veterinarian who
makes a report of suspected
animal cruelty or who provides
related records or information is
immune from civil or criminal
liability or administrative penalty
or sanction on account of such
report, records, information, or
testimony, unless the veterinarian
acted in bad faith or with
malicious purpose.
Effective 7-1-10
All
animals
Increases the penalty for a
subsequent violation of the animal
care laws regarding an owner's
failure to provide adequate food
water, shelter, and veterinary care
to a Class 2 misdemeanor. A
subsequent violation related to
adequate space, exercise, care,
5/21/10 Signed into
law
HB 1541
HB 1541 / SB
1026
HB 322
HB 1145
HB 281
Regulation of farm
animals care and
handling
Agricultural
Animal; care by
owner, penalty
Farm Animal Care
Standards
Rabies vaccination;
exempts certain
dogs and cats
Animal Cruelty,
requires
veterinarian to
report
Animal Cruelty,
increases penalties
treatment and transportation are
increased to a Class 3
misdemeanor. The civil penalty
for failure to sterilize a dog or cat
adopted from a releasing agency is
increased from $50 to $250.
Washington
Law
Title
HB 2674
Regarding animal
care standards
Animals
Content
Status
Creates livestock care standards
board; authorized to adopt
minimal standards governing the
care of livestock and poultry.
04/11/2012 Referred
to Agriculture &
Natural Resources
Governor signed into
law 05/10/2011,
effective 08/2012.
SB 5487 / HB
1813
Hen Housing
Standards
A bill establishing standards and a
timeline for egg production to
meet United Egg Producers (UEP)
and American Humane
Association (AHA) standards,
implementing European Union
(EU) standards for egg
production. Deadline for
implementation is 2026.
HB1538
Preventing the
Spread of Disease
Through Animal
Inspection
Regarding animal health
inspections, creates a fee per head
for disease traceability and
advisory committee
04/29/2011 Signed
by Governor
SB 6745
Concerning
Veterinary
Technician Licenses
After 7/1/15, eliminates the
practical experience option for
licensure of veterinary
technicians.
Effective
6-10-10.
Would allow an owner of a
companion animal who suffers
damage as a result of acts of
animal cruelty to bring an action
for exemplary damages up to three
times the actual damages
sustained, plus attorney's fees.
Introduced on
1-14-09 and referred
to Judiciary on
1-11-10.
HB 1150
Providing civil
remedies for
damages to a
companion animal
Initiative Measure
1130
Prevention of Farm
Animal Cruelty Act
HB 2387
Tethering
Companion
animals
Similar to California’s Proposition
2, Measure 1130 would prohibit
conventional cage housing for
laying hens and would ban the
sale of conventional eggs in the
state. The measure is backed by
The Humane Society of the
United States, Farm Sanctuary,
and the ASPCA.
Dogs
Makes it unlawful to tether a dog
outside, unattended for more than
1 hour each day
Deadline to turn in
signatures is
07/01/11 for
November 2011
ballot.
Initiative dropped
after July
UEP/HSUS
agreement.
Introduced 2009,
died
West Virginia
Law
Title
Animals
HB 4407
Updating the law
regarding the rabies
vaccinations of dogs
and cats
Dogs and
cats
HB 4201
Creating the
Livestock Care
Standards Board
Livestock
SB 490
Relating to domestic
violence
SB 81
Creating WV
Official Prescription
Program Act
Content
Updates rabies law to require the
use of vaccines capable of
producing immunity for 3 years
and dogs and cats to be boosted
one year after initial vaccination
and every third year thereafter.
Requires dogs and cats to be
vaccinated by the age of 6 months
by a licensed veterinarian or his or
her assistant.
Creates a 13-member Livestock
Care Standards Board to prescribe
standards for livestock care and
well being, including a
veterinarian engaged in large
animal practice.
Allows a court, in a domestic
violence order of protection, to
award the petitioner the exclusive
care, possession, or control of any
animal owned, possessed, leased,
kept or held by either the
petitioner or the respondent or a
minor child, and prohibit the
respondent from concealing,
molesting, physically injuring,
killing or otherwise disposing of
the animal and limiting or
precluding contact by the
respondent with the animal.
Requires prescriptions to be
written on an official tamper-proof
form to reduce prescription drug
fraud.
Status
Effective 6-6-10
Effective 6-11-10
Effective 6-11-10
Effective 6-9-10
Wisconsin
Law
AB 708
Title
Animals
Provide food animal
veterinarian loan
assistance program
Content
Status
Would authorize the Board of
Regents of the University of
Wisconsin System to repay up to
$50,000 in educational loans
obtained by a food animal
veterinarian for education leading
to a doctor of veterinary medicine
degree from an accredited school
of veterinary medicine.
04/28/2010 Failed to
pass
Wyoming
Law
Title
HB 12
Contagious and
infectious diseases
among livestock
Animals
Content
Revising provisions
related to contagious
and infectious
diseases among
livestock; increasing
certain penalties
related to diseases
among livestock
Status
01/11/2013 Signed
By Governor
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