Indiana Senate Bill 16 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 3 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-01-03 - First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture
Pending: Senate Agriculture Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Adoption of retired research animals. Requires research facilities that use dogs or cats as research animals in experiments for education, research, science, or testing to offer retired research animals that do not have a substantial medical condition for adoption to animal care facilities or to individuals. Establishes immunity for the: (1) research facility's transfer of a retired research animal to an animal care facility; and (2) adoption of a retired research animal by an individual through the animal care facility. Provides the Indiana state board of animal health with rulemaking authority to implement the adoption of research animals.

Adoption of retired research animals. Requires research facilities that use dogs or cats as research animals in experiments for education, research, science, or testing to offer retired research animals that do not have a substantial medical condition for adoption to animal care facilities or to individuals. Establishes immunity for the: (1) research facility's transfer of a retired research animal to an animal care facility; and (2) adoption of a retired research animal by an individual through the animal care facility. Provides the Indiana state board of animal health with rulemaking authority to implement the adoption of research animals.

Sen. John Ruckelshaus [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-03	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture
2018-01-03	Senate	Authored by Senator Ruckelshaus

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/16/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/0/5/9/1059f495/SB0016.01.INTR.pdf