Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AB 1067

Relating to: quarantine requirements for a dog or cat that has bitten its owner.

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill changes the requirements for examining a quarantined dog or cat that

has bitten its owner.

Under current law, if a dog or cat is required to be quarantined because it bit

a person, the animal must be kept under strict isolation for at least ten days and must

be examined by a veterinarian on the first day of isolation, the last day of isolation,

and one intervening day. Under the bill, if the person that the dog or cat bit is the

animal's owner, if the animal is currently vaccinated against rabies, and if the animal

shows no signs of rabies during the isolation period, then during the isolation period

the animal is required to be examined by a veterinarian only on the first day and last

day of isolation.