The Florida Senate

SB 980: Lost, Stray, Unwanted, or Homeless Dogs and Cats

GENERAL BILL by Brandes

Lost, Stray, Unwanted, or Homeless Dogs and Cats; Requiring certain animal shelters, humane organizations, or animal control agencies that take receivership of any lost, stray, unwanted, or homeless dogs or cats to adopt written policies and procedures to achieve specified goals; authorizing employees, agents, or contractors of certain animal shelters or animal control agencies to implant dogs and cats with radio-frequency identification devices for certain purposes, etc.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  11/18/2019	Senate	• Filed
  12/13/2019	Senate	• Referred to Agriculture; Innovation, Industry, and Technology; Rules -SJ 73
  1/14/2020	Senate	• Introduced -SJ 73
  1/16/2020	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Agriculture, 01/21/20, 10:00 am, 301 Senate Building
  1/21/2020	Senate	• Favorable by Agriculture; YEAS 4 NAYS 0 -SJ 154 • Now in Innovation, Industry, and Technology
  3/14/2020	Senate	• Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration • Died in Innovation, Industry, and Technology

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• SB 980, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 11/18/2019 at 2:57 PM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	Agriculture (Pre-Meeting) 1/17/2020 (pdf) Agriculture (Post-Meeting) 1/21/2020 (pdf)

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
  H 685	Lost or Stray Dogs and Cats	Silvers	Similar	Last Action: 3/14/2020 H Died in Business and Professions Subcommittee

  Committee Votes (1)

  Date	Committee	Result
  1/21/2020 10:00 AM	Agriculture	4 Yeas - 0 Nays

  Citations - Statutes (1)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  823.151	Lost or stray dogs and cats.	Page 1 (pdf)

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