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Bill Status: Passed committee |
 | Antifreeze Safety
Bill Number: GA H.B. 219
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: Adjourned
Requires antifreeze containing more than 10 percent ethylene glycol to include denatonium benzoate as an aversive agent to render it unpalatable. |
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Bill Status: Held Over |
| Cockfighting
Bill Number: GA H.B. 109
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: Adjourned
Currently, cockfighting is only prohibited under the cruelty law. This bill would specifically make cockfighting, owning, possessing or training birds for fighting, and allowing a premises to be used for cockfighting felony offenses. It also would make being a spectator at a cockfight an aggravated misdemeanor. |
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Bill Status: Held Over |
| Dogs in Trucks
Bill Number: GA H.B. 692
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: Adjourned
Prohibits transporting an animal in the back of a truck unless the truck has side and tail racks at least 46 inches high, the animal is cross-tethered, or the animal is enclosed; exempts transportation of livestock and transportation of dogs for farming or ranching purposes. |
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Bill Status: Held Over |
| Methods of Euthanasia
Bill Number: GA H.B. 606 & S.B. 232
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: Adjourned
Specifies methods of euthanasia by injection; removes provision grandfathering carbon monoxide gas chambers that were in existence prior to 1990; requires lay people performing euthanasia to complete a training program. |
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Bill Status: Passed committee |
| Pet Protective Orders
Bill Number: GA H.B. 429
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: Adjourned
Allows a judge to include protections for pets in protective orders in cases of family violence. |
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Bill Status: Passed |
| Pro-Horse Slaughter Resolution
Bill Number: GA HR 583
HSUS Position: Oppose
Legislature Status: Adjourned
Oppose federal legislation that interferes with a state's ability to direct the transport or processing of horses. |
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Bill Status: Signed into Law |
| Prohibits Local Farm Animal Ordinances
Bill Number: GA H.B. 529
HSUS Position: Oppose
Legislature Status: Adjourned
Prohibits cities and counties from adopting ordinances, rules, regulations or resolutions regulating the production of agricultural or farm products on farms larger than 5 acres. |
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