2008 Legislation

SB 1424 TEXT in PDF

An act to repeal and add Section 2118 of the Fish and Game Code, relating to wild animals.

legislative counsel’s digest
SB 1424, as introduced, Machado. Wild animals: permits. Existing law prohibits the importation, transportation, possession, or live release of specified wild animals, except under a revocable, nontransferable permit. Existing law permits the Fish and Game Commission, by regulation, and in cooperation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, to add or delete wild animals from the list of specified wild animals. This bill would modify the list of wild animals by adding and deleting specified wild animals from that list.

VIDEO: The Propaganda Behind The Pet Extinction Bills

California Initiatives regarding animals in MSDOC and PDF files

We the People for Pets: Urgent Call to Action flyers: Version 1   Version 2   Version 3

Declaration of Circulator PDF file

Instructions in MSDOC and PDF files

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1292. (07-0060)
Property Ownership. Constitutional Amendment.
Summary Date: 11/21/07 Circulation Deadline: 04/21/08 Signatures Required: 694,354
Proponent: Richard Byrd
Amends California Constitution to declare that governmental entities within California, including cities and counties, may not make any law or ordinance that prevents any citizen from owning or legally acquiring property, or that limits the amount of property one may acquire, grow, produce, or own. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: The fiscal effect of this measure cannot be determined, as it would depend largely on how the measureʼs terms are interpreted by the courts and implemented by government. (Initiative 07-0060.) (Full Text)

1294. (07-0062)
Recognition of Animals as Property. Constitutional Amendment.
Summary Date: 11/21/07 Circulation Deadline: 04/21/08 Signatures Required: 694,354
Proponent: Jill Holt (951) 541-1669
Amends California Constitution to declare that all animals owned by citizens, including pets and animals used for agricultural purposes, are property. Prohibits enactment or enforcement of any law that would characterize privately-owned animals as anything other than property. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: Probably no fiscal effect on state and local governments. (Initiative 07-0062.) (Full Text)

1295. (07-0063)
Prohibition on Required or Coerced Sterilization of Animals or Humans. Constitutional Amendment.
Summary Date: 11/21/07 Circulation Deadline: 04/21/08 Signatures Required: 694,354
Proponent: Dianne-Margaret Hedgcock
Prohibits enactment or enforcement of any law requiring or coercing by any means, including financial penalty, sexual sterilization of any human or animal. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: Short-term savings to local governments because of the elimination of spay and neuter enforcement and surgery costs, offset in the long-term by unknown, but potentially significant, increased costs to operate shelters and provide animal control services to an increased dog and cat population. Unknown, but potentially significant loss of local government animal control revenue, because jurisdictions will no longer be able to charge a higher license or adoption fee for unaltered animals than for animals that are spayed or neutered. Potential avoidance of state costs of a few tens of thousands of dollars annually associated with the prohibition of chemical castration of certain prisoners upon their parole. (Initiative 07-0063.) (Full Text)

2007 Legislation

REXANO opposes AB 1634 (please note the AB 1634 is dead for now, we are just leaving this info her so you can learn the background on this bill as it might be reintroduced)
 

REXANO joins other pro animal groups in opposing AB 1634, so called ‘California Healthy Pets Act’. June 11, 2007 FREE posters

California's problems are everyone's problems  April 2007- Editorial

GRAPHS showing California Shelter data

California is proposing an extreme spay/neuter bill AB 1634,  even though facts clearly show there is no factual need to introduce another tax money wasting and property rights infringing animal rights (AR) bill that will only punish responsible animal breeders and pet owners. Furthermore, the table clearly shows the facts; even though the human population increased from 1995, the actual/real number of euthanized animals decreased. This translates to 1.5 decrease of animal euthanasia rate per person. In 1995, the rate was 0.019 animal euthanized per CA state resident, in 2005 the rate was 0.012, 1.5 times less. This clearly shows no need for another anti pet anti breeder spay/neuter law in California.
Large number of animals are feral cats as documented by LA Animal Services Kill Rate Report and this bill will do nothing to fix them.

Table: California State dog and cat euthanasia 1995-2005

Source: Euthanasia data submitted to California assembly by cahealthypets.com, US Census Bureau,
*cats vs.dogs breakdown estimates based on LA animal services statistical data of what percentage of total were dogs and cats in their shelter

Wild and exotic animal legislation:

MEASURE : A.B. No. 450
AUTHOR(S) : Strickland.
TOPIC : Wild animal facilities: inspection.
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 02/26/2007
LAST HIST. ACTION : Referred to Com. on W.,P. & W.
COMM. LOCATION : ASM WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE
HEARING DATE : 04/18/2007
TITLE : An act to amend Section 2150.4 of the Fish and Game
Code, relating to fish and game.

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MEASURE : S.B. No. 880
AUTHOR(S) : Calderon.
TOPIC : Crime.
HOUSE LOCATION : SEN
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 03/29/2007
LAST HIST. ACTION : Hearing postponed by committee. Set for hearing May 8.
COMM. LOCATION : SEN NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER
HEARING DATE : 05/08/2007
TITLE : An act to amend Section 653o of the Penal Code, relating
to crime.

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SECTION 1. Section 653o of the Penal Code is amended to read:
653o. (a) It is unlawful to import into this state for commercial
purposes, to possess with intent to sell, or to sell within the
state, the dead body, or any part or product thereof, of any polar
bear, leopard, ocelot, tiger, cheetah, jaguar, sable antelope, wolf
(Canis lupus), zebra, whale, cobra, python, sea turtle, colobus
monkey, kangaroo, vicuna, sea otter, free-roaming feral horse,
dolphin or porpoise (Delphinidae), Spanish lynx, or elephant.
(b) Commencing January 1, 2010, it shall be unlawful to import
into this state for commercial purposes, to possess with intent to
sell, or to sell within the state, the dead body, or any part or
product thereof, of any crocodile or alligator.

(c) For purposes of this section, "kangaroo" means those species
of kangaroo that are included under either of the following:

(1) The federal Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. Sec.
1531 et seq.).
(2) The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of
Wild Fauna and Flora, signed on March 3, 1973, 27 U.S.T. 1087 and
its appendices.

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MEASURE : A.B. No. 777
AUTHOR(S) : Levine.
TOPIC : Animal cruelty: elephants.
HOUSE LOCATION : ASM
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 03/15/2007
LAST HIST. ACTION : Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M.
COMM. LOCATION : ASM PUBLIC SAFETY
COMM. ACTION DATE : 04/17/2007
COMM. ACTION : Set, first hearing. Hearing cancelled at the request of
author.
HEARING DATE : 04/17/2007
TITLE : An act to amend Section 596.5 of the Penal Code,
relating to animal cruelty.

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