Sentences with phrase «puppy mill bill»

The, «Pet Quality Assurance Act,» commonly referred to as the, «puppy mill bill,» passed the Oklahoma house and senate last year, as did a very important house bill which would have eliminated the archaic restriction that prevents Oklahoma counties with populations under 200,000 from building shelters or operating animal control services.

Update November 10, 2012: Ohio state Rep. Dave Hall has announced a hearing and vote set Tuesday, November 13, 2012 on a revised puppy mill bill in the Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee he chairs.

Update March 5, 2008: The Senate passed the puppy mill bill!!

Update June 5, 2008: Governor Tim Kaine has now signed the landmark puppy mill bill into law.

Update Oct. 28, 2009: The Wisconsin Assembly has unanimously passed a substitute version of AB 250 while the Senate puppy mill bill, the Senate substitute version of SB 208 has been sent to the Joint Committee on Finance.

Update May 20: The Oregon puppy mill bill, H.B. 2470 has now passed the Senate Consumer Protection and Public Affairs Committee.

If you need a reason to write or call Virginia Senators in support of H.B. 538, the puppy mill bill, click here.

Update Oct. 29: The Wisconsin legislature's Joint Finance Committee has approved SB 208, the senate version of the puppy mill bill.

Update June 2: Oregon's puppy mill bill passed the state Senate by a vote of 18 - 10.

He has signed the puppy mill bill into law.

The puppy mill bill, HB 1004, Â was assigned to a special standing Committee on Emerging Issues in Animal Agriculture but did not advance further.

Under Governor Rendell's proposed puppy mill bill, H.B. 2525, breeders will be required to comply with local zoning ordinances and permit requirements.

Before the summer recess, there were over 100 amendments that were offered for the puppy mill bill, H.B. 2525, a comprehensive overhaul of the Dog Law as applied to commercial dog breeders,  as breeders, the state farm bureau and the Pennsylvania Veterinarian Medical Association worked to defeat it.Â

Update June 23, 2008: Â Â There is likely to be a vote as early as tomorrow in the House Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee on H.B. 2525, more commonly known as the Pennsylvania puppy mill bill.

Update Sept. 29, 2008: Â The Pennsylvania Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs committee has passed the puppy mill bill, H.B. 2525, but with two packages of amendments that, according to one member of the Dog Law Advisory Board, «water down» the proposed law.

11/22/12 - Local 12 WKRC - Crack Down on Puppy Mills 11/20/12 - 19 Action News, Editorial - Pet Peeved 09/18/12 - The Toledo Blade, Editorial - Regulate puppy mills 09/12/12 - The Toledo Blade - Local leader testifies about puppy mill law 08/12/12 - Cleveland.com, Letter to the Editor - Ohio puppy mill bill is toothless: letter to the editor 07/12/12 - OrvisNews.com - Damning USA Today Report on Ohio Dog Auctions 07/09/12 - WKYC - Dog auctions accused of animal cruelty 07/05/12 - Cleveland Plain Dealer - Rescuers buy 8 dogs from breeder and protest puppy mills: Animals in the News 06/08/12 - Columbus Dispatch - Dog auctions won't be on ballot 05/03/12 - ONN - Animal Welfare Officials Working To Shut Down Puppy Mills 04/25/12 - Toledo Blade, Editorial - No more dog auctions 04/21/12 - Toledo Blade - Deadline nears for dog auction 04/17/12 - Cleveland Plain Dealer, Editorial - Targeting dog auctions in Ohio 04/15/12 - Sunny 95, Inviting Conversations - A discussion about puppy mills and dog auctions 04/07/12 - Columbus Dispatch, Letter to the Editor - Puppy mills must end 04/06/12 - NBC41 - Nine Signatures Want Your Signature To Get On A Ballot 03/15/12 - WKRC, Local 12 - Ohio Voters May Get To Vote On Proposal to Ban Dog Auctions 03/12/12 - The Post Newspapers, Letter to the Editor - Ohio must make animal cruelty laws high priority 02/9/12 - The Other Paper - Woof!

Placing a puppy mill bill under Hall's committee has in effect put a fox in charge of the hen house.

I addressed the legislative committee [in support of the puppy mill bill] as past president of the Collie Club of America, past president of the Purebred Dog Breeders and Fanciers Association, past president of the Cleveland Collie Club, and an AKC dog judge.

An interesting fact about the film: the film team spent 10 days in Missouri, and the battle over Prop B (the puppy mill bill that was defeated) is a featured segment of the film.

The ordinance, dubbed the «puppy mill bill,» was signed into law by Mayor Martin J. Walsh and will apply to stores in Boston, according to an administration spokeswoman, Bonnie McGilpin.

Monday, February 24 2014: Bailey's Bill (puppy mill bill) is being heard by the house TODAY!!!

Pennsylvania passed the «puppy mill bill» in October, partly because so many people were demanding it.

The Cook County puppy mill bill, which would ban pet stores from selling commercially bred dogs, cats, and rabbits and is scheduled to go..

The Pet Quality Assurance Act, or the «puppy mill bill,» House Bill 1332, and House Bill 1045, a bill which would have allowed low - population counties to operate a shelter and pass animal control ordinances, would have combined to help the most voiceless of all companion animals in our state; dogs in unlicensed dog dealing facilities and unwanted animals facing abandonment due to the absence of shelters.

The 2010 passage of the «puppy mill bill» placed the commercial pet breeder regulations under title 59 of the Oklahoma State Code in a section called Professions and Occupations, and the licensing compels breeders to collect and remit sales taxes to the state in a manner consistent with other retail businesses.

Suffolk County Executive Steven Bellone signed into law Tuesday the «puppy mill bill,» safeguarding the animals themselves, as well as consumers who have been burdened by unexpected medical costs of caring for their newly purchased pets.

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Assembly Member Linda B. Rosenthal said, «Today represents a watershed moment for animal protection in New York State now that my bill A.740 - A, also known as the «puppy mill bill,» has become law.

Was it a warning shot, so to speak, of things to come for the dogs if the state passes the puppy mill bills now pending in the legislature?

Click here for more on the pending Pennsylvania puppy mill bills and how you can help pass them.

Those two PRO PUPPY MILL bills masquerading as positive changes are up for review in Springfield this week.

The HSUS applauds the Indiana House of Representatives and Senate for passing anti-animal cruelty and puppy mill bills.

Update Sept. 17, 2008: The momentum appears to be in favor of Gov. Ed Rendell's puppy mill bills.

Update Sept. 22, 2008: A spokesperson for Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi says he sees «no reason» that the puppy mill bills won't come up for a vote before the end of this year's legislative session.

Not exact matches

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Much like a law passed by the village of Mamaroneck in 2016, the bill, introduced to state lawmakers by Sen. Michael Gianaris, a Democrat, on Feb. 15, would ban retail pet stores from buying their pets at for - profit breeders with the hope of curtailing the operation of «puppy mills,» mass breeders with a reputation of over-breeding and treating pets inhumanely.

Lawmakers also heard arguments about a bill that would ban the sale of puppies coming from so - called puppy mills.

For those not familiar with the bill, Oklahoma is the only high volume breeder state to lack state regulations of the facilities commonly referred to as «puppy mills.»

Meanwhile, the bills also addressed other areas of the pet sales industry, including legislation designed to keep «puppy mill» dogs out of New York retail kennels.

You heard from us last week about S.B. 1712, a bill to protect dogs in Oklahoma puppy mills.

These recent bills came about out of fear, not out of any reasonable plan to address the Oklahoma puppy mill issue.

The bills would also place an upper limit on the number of intact breeding dogs that may be housed in breeding facilities, to prevent our state from becoming a haven for inhumane puppy mills.

Backers of increased restrictions on dog breeders in North Carolina recorded a conversation with a state Senator who opposes the bill at a meeting earlier this month and, as a result, some Republican leaders say there will be no vote on a proposed puppy mill law this year.

I respectfully request that you do not allow this «fast - tracked» bill initiated by special interest groups to circumvent the will of voters who overwhelmingly support pet stores like Mutts & Co. and Pet Valu who make an enduring commitment to end the «puppy mill to pet store» supply chain in their business operations.»

This bill has the backing of those who support the puppy mill industry and would remove the rights of local governments -LSB-...]

«The governor needs to understand that by signing this bill he's embracing «puppy mill» standards that the USDA has admitted in its own documents that they are unable to enforce.»

The end goal of this bill and the reason for this measure is to drastically reduce the number of animals sold through both shelters and retail pet stores purchased through mass breeding operations or as the media along with the general public labelling them «puppy mills» or «kitten factories».

It's important to remember that these bills are not intended to ban commercial breeding, they are simply designed to eliminate the worst abuses at puppy mills and create more humane living conditions for the dogs who live there.

«A Florida House bill could make it legal to sell puppy mill dogs statewide, even if local ordinances ban it,» Tampa Bay Times, February 26, 2018

Tennessee state Sen. Doug Jackson says the conditions at the Hickman County, Tennessee puppy mill of Patricia Adkisson were abhorrent enough to prompt him to introduce S.B. 258 (H.B. 386 in the House), a bill that would require licensing of commercial dog and cat breeders, establish regulatory control over these breeders, Â and also offer protections for consumers purchasing these animals as pets.