[ SHOWGSD-L ] VA:Fw: HB340, Materially Rewritten and a Substantial Victory for Responible ...
- From: RihadinK9@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:17:56 EST
I still have a problem with the "registry" part of this bill, but it is
better than it was...
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From: _vhdoa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:vhdoa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
To: _S_VHDOA_ (mailto:VHDOA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 1:01 AM
Subject: HB340,Materially Rewritten and a Substantial Victory for Responible
DogOwners.
A VHDOA message to dog owning sportsmen about protecting their traditions,
avocations and livelihoods from anti-hunting, anti-breeding, animal
guardianship advocates. Forwarding and cross posting, with attribution,
encouraged.
____________________________________
Dear Virginia Dog Owners,
The amended and engrossed HB340 may be found at
_http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+HB340EH1+pdf_
(http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+HB340EH1+pdf) .
All of its owner criminal penalties for a dog that in any way injures a
human, pet or feral cat have been removed.
Thank you for your efforts to convince legislators that these provisions
were too broad, unnecessary, inappropriate and would have created an enormous
negative fiscal impact by crowding our courts and filling Virginia's jails.
HB340 now focuses exclusively on creating a statewide dangerous dog registry
for those animals judiciously determined to have injured any human, pet or
feral cat. Tommy Wright's exemption for dogs injuring nonhumans while lawfully
hunting remains in place. There's a potentially helpful, new, catch-all
judicial standard for a court to decline to declare a dog dangerous, i.e. "for
other good causes determined by the court."
HB340, if vigorously enforced, could force a number of dogs to be put down.
Its increased $300,000 liability coverage or surety bond necessary to keep a
dangerous dog ensures that. I've documented 63 dogs determined dangerous in
five counties in 2004; none of them have the required $100,000 coverage.
That's certain to change very shortly, perhaps before this session's laws take
effect July 1st.
HB340's new dangerous dog spay-neuter requirement is a major negative state
policy statement. No one has ever credibly linked sterilization to reducing
an animal's aggressiveness. The spay-neuter provision in HB339 for impounded
intact dogs and its deleted statewide $10/$5 fees reinforce the conclusion
that this was a broad goal of Virginia's HSUS clones this session.
Still and all, the amended HB340 is a much improved bill and, when combined
with HB1039's felony provision for clearly irresponsible owner behavior and a
serious human injury, it should allow General Assembly legislators to
advance the House's dangerous dog effort over any bill passed by the Senate.
This
couldn't have been done without the combined efforts of those of you
subscribing to VHDOA's alerts, trusting in their merit and acting quickly upon
them.
Thank you all.
Sincerely,
Bob Kane
Virginia Hunting Dog Owners' Association
_http://vhdoa.uplandbirddog.com/_ (http://vhdoa.uplandbirddog.com/)
Ginger Cleary, Rome, GA
"You should not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will
convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do
and
the harm it would cause if improperly administered." Lyndon Johnson, 36th
President of the U.S.
_http://www.rihadin.com_ (http://www.rihadin.com/)
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