Florida House Bill 597 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Failed on March 9 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-09 - Died in Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Creates "Animal Rescue Act"; requires animal control agency or animal shelter that euthanizes animals to maintain registry of animal rescue groups that are willing to accept animals that would otherwise be euthanized; provides eligibility criteria; provides criteria under which animal control agency or shelter may reject applicant for registry or remove participant from registry; provides application requirements; authorizes animal control agency or shelter to require rescue group or person to provide certain data each month; prohibits animal control agency or shelter from euthanizing animal until animal agency or shelter has notified appropriate animal rescue group or person listed on registry; provides exceptions; authorizes animal control agency or shelter to assess fee for each animal released to rescue group; requires that each animal control agency or animal shelter provide for public information on regular basis.

Animal Shelters and Animal Control Agencies

Rep. Joseph Abruzzo [D]	Rep. Larry Ahern [R]	Sen. Frank Artiles [R]	Rep. Debbie Boyd [D]
Sen. Janet Cruz [D]	Rep. Clay Ford [R]	Rep. John Julien [D]	Rep. Peter Nehr [R]
Rep. Steven Perman [D]	Rep. Ari Porth [D]	Rep. Kenneth Roberson [R]	Rep. Franklin Sands [D]
Sen. Darren Soto [D]	Rep. Trudi Williams [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee
2012-01-10		Introduced -HJ 60
2011-11-15		Referred to Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee; Community and Military Affairs Subcommittee; State Affairs Committee -HJ 60
2011-11-08		Filed

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/597
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0597/BillText/Filed/HTML