PetPAC Stops SB 1277.
- Your Vote Counts
- Florez is at it Again
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- Support Oreo's law
- Second chances all round
- Electing A New Speaker of the Assembly
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- PetPAC on MSN
- PetPAC Remains Opposed to SB 250
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- Bill Hemby’s Testimony on SB 250
- SB 250- Amended and On Its Way – What will Happen Now?
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- MSN Bites The Dust In Manteca, CA
- SB 250 - MSN, By Any Other Name, Is Still ............
- Chairman's Column - 100 Points
- On a Loose Lead
Only $6.00 from a misdemeanor conviction and $15.00 from a felony conviction would go to the registry. That amount never could have supported the creation and administration of an animal abuser registry. So, some future lawmaker would have had to go back to the legislature to raise the fines. I could see from the surprised looks on the faces of the committee, when I explained this in both the Senate Public Safety Committee and the Senate Appropriations Committee, lawmakers didn't realize the bill was a sham. Even the committee analysis didn't catch this absurdity. It seems lawmakers actually listened.
Senate Bill 1277, Senator Dean Florez, D- Shafter, the animal abuse registry bait and switch bill has been held in the Senate Appropriations Committee Suspense file. Since the bill didn't make it out of the suspense file on May 27th, it is dead and gone. SB 1277 you will note would have collected fines from people convicted of animal abuse crimes to support an animal abuse registry similar to that for pedafiles. While SB 1277 may have been deserving of support, the real intention of the bill was to fund spay and neuter programs.
What was never divulged to legislators and the public was only 3% of the money raised went to pay for the registry. A whopping 97% would have funded local spay and neuter programs, including mandatory spay and neuter. Further, that 97% had no strings attached. It was a government giveaway program.
Unless Senator Florez has some devious tricks still up his sleeve, the only threat left is SB 250, his spay and neuter bill. SB 250 resides on the Assembly floor and can be brought back at any time until the end of session. I believe it would be prudent to send letters to your state assembly member to remind them you still oppose SB 250. Lets stay active and send a message to animal rights extremists that California is no longer their playground.
