Bill Text: MI SB1085 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Animals; animal shelters; euthanizing healthy and treatable animals; prohibit under certain circumstances. Amends 1969 PA 287 (MCL 287.331 - 287.340) by adding sec. 8b.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-09-23 - Referred To Committee On Agriculture [SB1085 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-SB1085-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 1085

 

 

September 23, 2014, Introduced by Senators PAPPAGEORGE, SCHUITMAKER and COLBECK and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1969 PA 287, entitled

 

"An act to regulate pet shops, animal control shelters, and animal

protection shelters; to establish uniform procedures and minimum

requirements for adoption of dogs, cats, and ferrets; and to

prescribe penalties and civil fines and to provide remedies,"

 

(MCL 287.331 to 287.340) by adding section 8b.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 8b. An animal control shelter or an animal protection

 

shelter shall not euthanize an animal under either of the following

 

circumstances:

 

     (a) The animal is healthy or the animal has a treatable health

 

condition and another animal control shelter or animal protection

 

shelter agrees to accept the animal for the purpose of placing the

 

animal for adoption or treating the animal's health condition.

 

     (b) The decision to euthanize the animal is based solely on

 

either the animal's physical appearance or the breed of the animal.