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Bill Status: Pending |
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Bill Number: OH H.B. 45
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: In Session
Require persons who possess dangerous wild animals or exotic animals to obtain a personal possession permit and establishes requirements regarding the possession and care of dangerous wild animals and exotic animals. |
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Bill Status: Pending |
| Animal Cruelty
Bill Number: OH H.B. 22
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: In Session
Increases penalties for cruelty to animals and requires a child under fifteen years of age who commits cruelty against a companion animal to undergo psychological counseling.
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Bill Status: Passed |
| Animal Fighting
Bill Number: OH H.B. 71
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: In Session
Provides for the seizure, impoundment and disposition of roosters and dogs involved in fighting and of companion animals suspected to be suffering from abuse or neglect. |
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Bill Status: Pending |
| Antifreeze
Bill Number: OH H.B. 38
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: In Session
Requires engine coolant or antifreeze that contains more than 10% ethylene glycol to include a bittering agent to render the engine coolant or antifreeze unpalatable, and requires manufacturers, packagers, distributors, recyclers, and sellers of engine coolant or antifreeze to comply with the requirement. |
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Bill Status: Pending |
| Puppy Mills
Bill Number: OH H.B. 223 & S.B. 173
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: In Session
Requires a person operating a regulated dog breeding kennel to obtain an annual regulated dog breeding kennel license; establishes specified standards applicable to regulated dog breeding kennels and regulated dog intermediaries related to the feeding, care, and living conditions of dogs; requires inspections of regulated dog breeding kennels to be conducted without prior notification. |
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Bill Status: Passed House |
| Animal Cruelty & Pet Protection
Bill Number: OH H.B. 418
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: In Session
Revises the penalties and sentencing provisions regarding violations of the cruelty to animals statutes and includes the protection of companion animals in temporary protection orders, domestic violence protection orders, anti-stalking protection orders, and related protection orders. |
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Bill Status: Pending |
| Pit Bull Ban
Bill Number: OH H.B. 568
HSUS Position: Oppose
Legislature Status: In Session
Prohibits the owning, keeping, or harboring of pit bull dogs beginning ninety days after the effective date of the act and requires specified officers to seize and euthanize all pit bull dogs after that date. |
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