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Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

SB 871

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Relating to: the requirements for a court order to kill a dog.

Court Dogs Veterinary medicine

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill modifies the situations under which a court may grant a judgment for

an order to kill a dog. Current law authorizes a court to grant a judgment for an order

to kill a dog if the court makes the following findings: 1) the dog caused serious injury

without reasonable cause to a person or domestic animal on two separate occasions

off the dog owner's property; and 2) the dog's owner was notified or knew before the

second injury that the dog caused the first injury.

Under the bill, a court may not count an occasion in which a dog causes serious

injury if the occasion involves a veterinarian or professional animal care worker who

believes that the dog was not behaving aggressively when the dog caused the injury.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Bewley (D) , Carpenter (D) , Hansen (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Shilling (D) , Wanggaard (R)

8 cosponsors

Billings (D) , Bowen (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Cabrera (D) , Doyle (D) , Emerson (D) , Sinicki (D) , Stubbs (D)

Full history

  1. Feb 28, 2020 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Shilling, Bewley, Hansen, Wanggaard, Carpenter and L. Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Billings, Doyle, Emerson, Stubbs, C. Taylor, Sinicki, Cabrera and Bowen

  2. Feb 28, 2020 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance, Financial Services, Government Oversight and Courts

  3. Apr 1, 2020 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1