Animal Advocacy Caucus Meeting
The Legislature’s Animal Advocacy Caucus met yesterday, on January 26th. The full meeting is available to watch on the Caucus’ Facebook Page.
The group went through the status of its priority bills this year as follows:
HB 5042 – Greyhound bill will be a General Law Committee bill
HB 5572 – Ban on pet shops selling dogs, cats and rabbits. The bill is in jeopardy.
HB 5123 – Traveling animal acts ban – sounds like it will be raised
SB102 Rodenticides – appears it will be a committee bill
HB 6260 and 5851 is Desmond’s law – the status is unclear
HB 5122 – Leghold traps ban – this bill is in jeopardy and is not on the list so far to be raised.
HB 5160 Black bears – has 4 parts: ban feeding; funding for tight lock muni trash bins, trap protocols and a farm self-defense piece.
The rest of the meeting consisted of discussion within its own echo chamber. Rep Marra asked what is to be done post attack in Morris, since people feel unsafe. The group said it was a good question and then went on to blame the little boy, saying there was nothing in the report about what that boy was doing. It was shocking but predictable. DEEP also took a big share of contempt and blame from the group as well. |
