Bill No. |
Title |
Summary |
Status |
 |
AB 233
(Support) |
Tax Deduction for Adopting an Animal from a Shelter |
Allows for a tax deduction for the qualified costs paid or incurred during the taxable year by a taxpayer for the adoption of pets from a qualified animal rescue. |
Pending |
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AB 241
(Support) |
Puppy Mills |
Limits the number of intact animals a person can maintain. |
Pending |
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AB 242
(Support) |
Felony Spectator at Dogfights |
Makes being a spectator at a dogfight a felony. |
Pending |
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AB 243
(Support) |
Animal Cruelty |
Strengthens the animal cruelty law by prohibiting a person convicted of animal cruelty from owning an animal. |
Pending |
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AB 708
(Support) |
Poaching |
Increases penalties for illegal poaching. |
Pending |
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AB 1122
(Support) |
Ban on Sale of Animals at Flea Markets |
Prohibits the sale of a live animal on any street, highway, public right-of-way, commercial parking lot, or at any outdoor special sale, swap meet, flea market, parking lot sale, carnival or boardwalk. |
Pending |
|
AB 1437
(Support) |
Eggs from Battery Cages |
Prohibits the sale of a shelled egg for human consumption if it is the product of an egg-laying hen who was confined on a farm or place that is not in compliance with California animal care standards. |
Pending |
|
ACR 19
(Support) |
Spay Day Resolution |
Declares February 24, 2009, to be Spay Day USA 2009, and would request that Californians observe that day by having their dogs or cats spayed or neutered and by contributing to organizations that provide spay and neuter services. |
Pending |
|
HR 80
and S 462
(Support) |
Captive Primate Safety Act |
Prohibits interstate and foreign commerce in nonhuman primates (chimpanzees, monkeys, lemurs and others) for the pet trade. Some states already prohibit private ownership of nonhuman primates as pets, but since these animals are often moved between states for the pet trade, federal legislation is needed to curb this interstate commerce. |
Passed House |
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HR 81/
S 850
(Support) |
Shark Conservation Act |
Protects sharks from the cruel practice of shark finning (cutting off sharks' fins and throwing the sharks back in the water, often while still alive). Congress banned this practice in 2000, but enforcement is complex and there is room for cheating. This legislation closes a loophole that currently permits a vessel to transport fins obtained illegally as long as the sharks were not finned aboard that vessel. |
Passed House |
|
HR 305
(Support) |
Horse Transportation Safety Act |
Prohibits the interstate transportation of horses in a motor vehicle containing two or more levels stacked on top of one another. |
Pending |
|
HR 388
and S 197
(Support) |
Crane Conservation Act |
Assists in the conservation of cranes by supporting and providing financial resources for conservation programs. |
Passed House |
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HR 411 and S 529
(Support) |
Great Cats and Rare Canids Act |
Provides support and financial resources for conservation programs of rare felids (such as lions, leopards, jaguars, cheetahs, and iberian lynx) and canids (such as the gray wolf, ethiopian wolf, maned wolf, and african and asiatic wild dogs) to nations within the animals' natural range. |
Passed House |
|
HR 503/
S 727
(Support) |
Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act |
Prohibits certain conduct relating to use of horses for human consumption. |
Pending |
|
HR 556
(Support) |
Sea Otter Recovery and Research Act |
Establishes a program of research, recovery and other activities to provide for the recovery of the southern sea otter. |
Pending |
|
HR 669
(Support) |
Nonnative Wildlife Invasion Prevention Act |
To prevent the introduction and establishment of nonnative wildlife species negatively impacting the economy, environment, or human or animal species' health, and for other purposes. |
Pending |
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HR 1018
(Support) |
Wild Horses and Burros |
Restores the prohibition on the commercial sale and slaughter of wild free-roaming horses and burros. This provision was stripped by an amendment slipped into the 2005 Omnibus Spending Bill. On May 19, 2005, the U.S. House overwhelmingly passed an amendment to the Interior Appropriations bill that removed the Bureau of Land Management's funding for horse slaughter. However, this amendment was ultimately left out of the final version of the bill. |
Pending |
|
HR 1055
(Oppose) |
Importation of Polar Bear Trophies |
Allows importation of polar bear trophies taken in sport hunts in Canada. |
Pending |
|
HR 1326
(Support) |
Great Ape Protection Act |
Phases out the use of chimpanzees in invasive research in the United States, retire the approximately 500 federally owned chimpanzees to permanent sanctuary, and make the recent National Institutes of Health decision to end breeding on federally owned chimpanzees statutory. |
Pending |
|
HR 1549
and S 619
(Support) |
Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act |
To phase out the routine non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in farm animals – a common practice to promote growth and compensate for overcrowded, stressful, unsanitary conditions on factory farms – in order to maintain the effectiveness of antibiotics for treating sick people and animals.
|
Pending |
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H Res 191
(Support) |
Animal Cruelty - Human Violence Resolution |
Designates May 2009 as "National Link Awareness Month" to recognize the link between animal cruelty and other forms of societal violence. |
Pending |
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S 373
(Support) |
Python Importation |
Bans the interstate commerce and importation of pythons. |
Pending |
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S 859
(Support) |
Marine Mammal Stranding |
Provides grants for marine mammal rescue and disentanglement. |
Pending |
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S Res 84
(Support) |
Canadian Seal Hunt Resolution |
Urges the Government of Canada to end the commercial seal hunt. |
Pending |
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SB 135
(Support) |
Ban on Tail Docking |
Bans the tail docking of cows. |
Pending |
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SB 318
(Support) |
Dogfighting Forfeiture |
Allows for the forfeiture of property connected with dogfighting. |
Pending |
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SB 609 and SB 753
(Oppose) |
Kangaroos |
Allows for the importation of kangaroo skins. |
Pending |
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