KY HB556 | 2016 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on March 1 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-03-23 - floor amendment (1) filed
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

Summary

Create an new section of KRS Chapter 258 to define "cat," "veterinarian," and "declawing"; prohibit anyone other than a licensed veterinarian from performing a declaw procedure on a cat; require informing the cat's owner of the physical consequences of declawing to the cat and options to declawing.

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Title

AN ACT relating to cat declawing.

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History

DateChamberAction
2016-03-23Housefloor amendment (1) filed
2016-03-18Houseposted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 21, 2016
2016-03-17House2nd reading, to Rules
2016-03-16Housereported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2016-03-14Houseposted in committee
2016-03-02Houseto Agriculture & Small Business (H)
2016-03-01Houseintroduced in House

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