Florida Senate Bill 488 (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 Messages
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Authorizing a county or municipality enacting an ordinance relating to animal control or cruelty to impose a specified surcharge on the civil penalty for violations of the ordinance; specifying use of the proceeds of the surcharge; prohibiting the governing body of a county or municipality from charging owners of animals more than a certain amount for the spaying or neutering of their animals in specified circumstances; authorizing the animal control authority to allocate certain excess funds to the program to spay and neuter cats and dogs; providing for construction, etc.

Animal Control or Cruelty Ordinances

Senate Community Affairs Committee

Sen. Don Gaetz [R]

Sen. Nan Rich [D]

Sen. Eleanor Sobel [D]

2012-02-29 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading RCS#11 (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Messages
2012-03-01		In Messages
2012-02-29		CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 -SJ 714
2012-02-29		Read 3rd time -SJ 714
2012-02-28		Placed on 3rd reading
2012-02-28		Read 2nd time -SJ 694
2012-02-27		Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/28/12
2012-02-22		Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/27/12
2012-02-22		Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading -SJ 671
2012-02-21		Favorable by- Budget; YEAS 21 NAYS 0 -SJ 671
2012-02-16		On Committee agenda-- Budget, 02/21/12, 3:45 pm, 412 Knott Building
2012-01-31		Now in Budget -SJ 300
2012-01-31		Favorable by Budget Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 -SJ 300
2012-01-26		On Committee agenda-- Budget Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations, 01/31/12, 8:00 am, 37 Senate Office Building
2012-01-19		Now in Budget Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations
2012-01-19		Subreferred to Budget Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations -SJ 255
2012-01-18		Now in Budget -SJ 214
2012-01-17		CS by Community Affairs read 1st time -SJ 249
2012-01-13		Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
2012-01-12		CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 -SJ 214
2012-01-10		Introduced -SJ 44
2011-12-21		On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/12/12, 8:00 am, 412 Knott Building
2011-11-22		On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 12/05/11, 12:30 pm, 301 Senate Office Building --Temporarily Postponed
2011-11-02		Referred to Community Affairs; Budget -SJ 44
2011-10-06		Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
828	27		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/488
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0488/BillText/Filed/HTML
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0488/BillText/c1/HTML
Roll Call	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/488/Vote/SenateVote_s0488c1011.PDF