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History
- Signed chap.240
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.229
- Substituted for A8261A
- Referred to ways and means
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–0
- Amended on third reading 98a
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
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- 1st report cal.919
- Referred to higher education
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to higher education
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–0
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.409
- Referred to higher education
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Requires research dogs and cats at certain facilities to be offered for adoption through private placement or with non-profit animal rescue and shelter organizations prior to euthanization
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Linda Rosenthal
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Title of bill
An act to amend the education law, in relation to requiring research dogs and cats at certain facilities to be offered for adoption through private placement or a non-profit animal rescue and shelter organization
Purpose or general idea of bill
This legislation would adopt the gold standard in canine and feline welfare by creating regulations pertaining to the treatment of dogs and cats at the end of any research performed on these animals.
Summary of specific provisions
Section 1. "The Research Animal Retirement Act" amends the education law by adding a new section 239-b by requiring publicly funded animal research facilities to seek adoption for those animals not required to be euthanized when testing is complete.
Section 2. effective date.
Justification
State-funded research facilities (such as university laboratories) sometimes utilize dogs and cats for research. If the animals do not have to be euthanized at the end of the tests for the sake of necropsy/cell and tissue samples, these dogs and cats deserve a chance to be adopted out. These labs should be required to make this effort.
Currently there are many laws covering the treatment of animals in labs relating to food, pain management, bedding and enrichment devices. When the research is complete it is up to the discretion of lab workers to try to find homes for their canine and feline subjects. After all that these animals have endured, they deserve the extra effort by the research facility. This legislation would ensure that dog and cat testing subjects be afforded the opportunity to live out their lives in loving homes.
Prior legislative history
S.7475-B 2013-14, passed Senate.
Fiscal implications
None
Effective date
On the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law, provided that the commissioner of education is authorized to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement this act on its effective date, on or before such date.
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