Animal Law Coalition

Update March 11, 2010: The Georgia House Rules Committee has released Grace's Law, H.B. 788, for a full vote by the House!

H.B. 788 would ban use of the remaining CO gas chambers to kill shelter animals in Georgia and also make heartstick illegal by statute. The bill is named for a dog, Grace, who survived a gassing.

WHAT YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW

You might wonder with the reports in the past 2 years of horrific animal abuse such as at the California Westland-Hallmark Co., Bushway Packing Co. in Vermont or the mis-named Country View Family Farms in Pennsylvania, whether anyone is taking action to stop this and enforce the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act

Update Mar. 11, 2010: Though Rep. Jim Sacia, sponsor of H.B. 4812, a bill to repeal the 2007 ban on horse slaughter for human consumption, said he had the votes to pass this bill in the state House of Representatives, he has pulled the bill. It is dead for this session.  

Update Mar. 4: The Florida Senate Community Affairs Committee has voted 9-2 today to repeal the state's prohibition on breed discriminatory laws outside of Miami Dade County.

Update Mar. 9, 2010: It's now official! Iowa Gov. Chet Culver has signed H.F. 2280 into law. A rare champagne moment for the animals, one rescuer described.

For more on this new law, read Animal Law Coalition's reports below.

Update Mar. 8, 2010: As the budgeting process in Congress is underway, it is important now more than ever for you to call on President Obama for a moratorium on the wild horse and burro roundups until there can be an investigation or hearing on BLM's management of these animals and a better course of action set.

Read the transcript attached below for downloading of the discussion and vote on H.B. 344, the landmark bill that would ban devocalization of dogs and cats in Massachusetts!  

Assembly Member Jim Tedisco has introduced a bill, AB 9912, that would bar those convicted of aggravated cruelty to companion animals from having future contact with a companion animal "unless and until authorized by a court order".  

Update Feb. 25, 2010: The Ohio House of Representatives has passed Nitro's Law by a vote of 59-38!  

Watch the video of the vote below!

I did vote for you. I was intrigued by your call for "change". You signaled a dramatic new course, one of openness and inclusion.  Certainly I applauded your choice of Joe Biden as vice president, a staunch animal welfare advocate.

The promises