Legislative Action Needed! Pasado's Safe Haven Animal Abandonment Bill SB5227 Needs Your Help!
The animal abandonment bill (that would increase the penalty from 90 days max jail time and $1,000 fine to one year max jail time and $5,000 fine - plus remove economic distress as an affirmative defense) is stuck in the Senate Rules committee right now. It may have been pulled to the floor for a vote late last night but I can't confirm.
We have only days left to get it out and on to the floor for a vote. I'd appreciate it if you could post information on the blog to get WA state folks to email the Rules Committee member that can get it pulled to the floor. We need to get it out of the Senate so it can be heard in the House of Representatives.
The bill is http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5227&year=2007
Once it's out of the Senate, we have two weeks to get it heard in the House Judiciary Committee. Then it goes through the same Rules Committee process in the House and to the floor for a vote.
Thanks to Rita Morgan, National Coordinator, Pasado's Safe Haven for her efforts on this bill. Please see below for a draft to copy and paste with links to email and numbers to call!
PLEASE HELP MAKE ANIMAL ABANDONMENT A SERIOUS CRIME IN WASHINGTON STATE!
Write to Senator Rosemary McAuliffe:
Senator Rosemary McAuliffe, a long time supporter of animal welfare bills, has the ability to move SB5227 http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5227&year=2007 out of a committee where it has been "stuck" and on to the Senate floor. (See below for a summary of the bill.)
We need Senator McAuliffe, alone, to make this happen. Why? The other senators have their agendas - their own bills to try and get to the Senate floor.
Senator McAuliffe needs to hear from as many people as possible AS SOON AS POSSIBLE so she knows how important this bill is to those of us who care for and fight for the forgotten and neglected animals abandoned by their humans.
Why Now?
The clock is ticking! We are on borrowed time now and if she doesn't do this soon, the bill could die in the Rules Committee, where most bills die!
PLEASE E-MAIL her RIGHT NOW and simply say: mcauliffe.rosemary@leg.wa.gov (put in your own words, please)
I understand Pasado's Safe Haven's animal abandonment bill SB 5227 needs your help. Please "pull" the bill out of the Rules Committee for a floor vote.
And thank you for working on a "dog on chains" law (NOTE: this is a bill Pasado's will be lobbying for her next session, with your help of course!)
Your name AND home address
cc: Senator Rodney Tom, the prime sponsor of SB5227: tom.rodney@leg.wa.gov
For those of you who live in Senator McAuliffe's district (find out if you live in her district here http://apps.leg.wa.gov/DistrictFinder/Default.aspx, in addition to emailing, please CALL the 1-800 Legislative Hotline 800.562.6000 and leave a message for her (you will NOT get to talk to her.)
Why should you e-mail AND call? It's very likely she will get only one message. Legislators are very busy. They need to be contacted in as many ways as possible.
Those of you in the 1st district have a special part to play because you are a constituent and have a powerful voice! It's VITAL you do this - and get ANYONE in your household or in District 1 to do this (of legal age).
Pasado's is hoping this will be our fourth animal cruelty bill made into law in as many years. YOU are needed to make this happen!!!
(If you don't know if a co-worker, friend, or family member lives in District 1, type their home address here: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/DistrictFinder/Default.aspx
We have only days left to get it out and on to the floor for a vote. I'd appreciate it if you could post information on the blog to get WA state folks to email the Rules Committee member that can get it pulled to the floor. We need to get it out of the Senate so it can be heard in the House of Representatives.
The bill is http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5227&year=2007
Once it's out of the Senate, we have two weeks to get it heard in the House Judiciary Committee. Then it goes through the same Rules Committee process in the House and to the floor for a vote.
Thanks to Rita Morgan, National Coordinator, Pasado's Safe Haven for her efforts on this bill. Please see below for a draft to copy and paste with links to email and numbers to call!
PLEASE HELP MAKE ANIMAL ABANDONMENT A SERIOUS CRIME IN WASHINGTON STATE!
Write to Senator Rosemary McAuliffe:
Senator Rosemary McAuliffe, a long time supporter of animal welfare bills, has the ability to move SB5227 http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5227&year=2007 out of a committee where it has been "stuck" and on to the Senate floor. (See below for a summary of the bill.)
We need Senator McAuliffe, alone, to make this happen. Why? The other senators have their agendas - their own bills to try and get to the Senate floor.
Senator McAuliffe needs to hear from as many people as possible AS SOON AS POSSIBLE so she knows how important this bill is to those of us who care for and fight for the forgotten and neglected animals abandoned by their humans.
Why Now?
The clock is ticking! We are on borrowed time now and if she doesn't do this soon, the bill could die in the Rules Committee, where most bills die!
PLEASE E-MAIL her RIGHT NOW and simply say: mcauliffe.rosemary@leg.wa.gov (put in your own words, please)
I understand Pasado's Safe Haven's animal abandonment bill SB 5227 needs your help. Please "pull" the bill out of the Rules Committee for a floor vote.
And thank you for working on a "dog on chains" law (NOTE: this is a bill Pasado's will be lobbying for her next session, with your help of course!)
Your name AND home address
cc: Senator Rodney Tom, the prime sponsor of SB5227: tom.rodney@leg.wa.gov
For those of you who live in Senator McAuliffe's district (find out if you live in her district here http://apps.leg.wa.gov/DistrictFinder/Default.aspx, in addition to emailing, please CALL the 1-800 Legislative Hotline 800.562.6000 and leave a message for her (you will NOT get to talk to her.)
Why should you e-mail AND call? It's very likely she will get only one message. Legislators are very busy. They need to be contacted in as many ways as possible.
Those of you in the 1st district have a special part to play because you are a constituent and have a powerful voice! It's VITAL you do this - and get ANYONE in your household or in District 1 to do this (of legal age).
Pasado's is hoping this will be our fourth animal cruelty bill made into law in as many years. YOU are needed to make this happen!!!
(If you don't know if a co-worker, friend, or family member lives in District 1, type their home address here: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/DistrictFinder/Default.aspx
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