[ SHOWGSD-L ] TN! $.50 on pet vax to feed humans????

From: Stormy Hope <Stormy435@xxxxxxx>
To: Showgsd GSD List <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:20:08 -0700
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Storm
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PLEASE CROSSPOST WIDELY!

SB 3850-HB 3834 has been re-written to add $1 to each rabies
vaccination in Tennessee. Now there is another fee on rabies
vaccinations planned by our legislature and governor.

Whether you've called and voiced your objection to SB 3850-HB 3834 or
not, PLEASE call and write again. A second amendment to the bill is
outlined in a fiscal memo here:

<http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Fiscal/FM1856.pdf>

(I'll post the memo at the end of this message.)

It states that, in addition to the $1 fee added to each rabies
vaccination, the governor plans to add a fifty cent surcharge to each
vaccination to fund HOME-DELIVERED MEALS FOR ELDERLY CITIZENS. Now,
I am as sympathetic to elderly citizens as anyone else, but there is
no reason in the world why pet owners should be paying for their
meals. The governor and legislature need to find another way to pay
for things instead of trying to stick it to pet owners. In fact,
many seniors own pets, so they would have to pay these fees that
would be used to buy the meals!

That would make a total of $1.50 added to each rabies vaccination in
the state. Each additional fee makes it more likely that some
animals would go unvaccinated and that someone in Tennessee would be
bitten by an animal with rabies.

Everyone needs to call AND write the House Health & Human Resources
Committee right away! This is URGENT. If you don't act then you
will be paying these fees in just a few weeks, and so will everyone
else in TN.

To voice your opposition to these state-added fees on vaccination
certificates, please contact the following committee members by
4/27/10. Be polite but tell them that this is a public safety
issue. If they add additional fees to pet vaccinations
there will be people who will not vaccinate their pets. That means
an increase in the odds that someone in Tennessee will get rabies.
You can ask them if it will happen in their district? How are they
going to explain a case of rabies to their constituents or to the media?

House Health and Human Resources Committee

Rep. Joe Armstrong, Chair
D-Knoxville
Phone (865) 357-1524
nashville office Phone (615) 741-0768
Fax (615) 253-0316
rep.joe.armstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Rep. Joey Hensley, vice chair
Phone (615) 741-7476
rep.joey.hensley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Members

Note: all phone numbers below are area code 615

Charles Curtiss rep.charles.curtiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
741-1963
Vince Dean rep.vince.dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 741-1934
John DeBerry rep.vince.dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 741-2239
Lois DeBerry rep.lois.deberry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 741-3830
Vance Dennis rep.vance.dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 741-2190
Joshua Evans rep.joshua.evans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 741-2860
Dennis Ferguson rep.dennis.ferguson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
741-7658
Henry Fincher rep.henry.fincher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 741-1875
Dale Ford rep.dale.ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 741-1717
Curtis Halford rep.curtis.halford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 741-7478
Michael Harrison rep.mike.harrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
741-7480
Sherry Jones rep.sherry.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 741-2035
Debra Maggart rep.debra.maggart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 741-3893
Jason Mumpower rep.jason.mumpower@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
741-2050
Gary Odom rep.gary.odom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 741-4410
Mary Pruitt rep.mary.pruitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 741-3853
Bob Ramsey rep.bob.ramsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 741-3560
Barrett Rich rep.barrett.rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 741-6890
Jeanne Richardson rep.jeanne.richardson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
741-2010
David Shepard rep.david.shepard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 741-3513
Tony Shipley rep.tony.shipley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 741-2886
Mike Turner rep.mike.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 741-3229
Mark White rep.mark.white@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 741-4415

SB 3850

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