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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 1073

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Relating to: prohibiting cat declawing procedures.

Cats Veterinary medicine

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, 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 prohibits persons, including veterinarians and veterinary technicians,

from performing a declawing procedure on a cat, except for a declawing procedure

performed for therapeutic purposes, as determined by a veterinarian. The bill

defines “declawing procedures” as onychectomies, partial or complete

phalangectomies, partial digital amputations, tendonectomies, or other procedures

to prevent the normal functioning of a cat's toes, claws, or paws.

Current law requires a person to have a license or permit from the Veterinary

Examining Board to practice veterinary medicine, and current law authorizes the

examining board to discipline veterinarians and veterinary technicians for violating

laws related to the practice of veterinary medicine.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Baldeh (D) , Billings (D) , Cabral-Guevara (R) , Doyle (D) , Emerson (D) , Pope (D) , Riemer (D) , Shelton (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stubbs (D)

3 cosponsors

Carpenter (D) , Erpenbach (D) , Smith (D)

Full history

  1. Mar 3, 2022 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Emerson, Shelton, Pope, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Baldeh, Billings, Cabral-Guevara, Doyle, Riemer, Spreitzer and Stubbs; cosponsored by Senators Carpenter, Erpenbach and Smith

  2. Mar 3, 2022 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs

  3. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1