[FEL-L] FWD: OPPOSE CA AB2862 - Hearing 8/10 - Addresses of Bus. & Prof. Committee Membe

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Contact information to OPPOSE CA AB 2862 is at the end of this  email.    
TODAY - Please email, fax, and call the senators and  the assemblyman who are now 
involved with this bill.
 
 
This request is addressed to anyone and everyone who wants to show  their 
support of animal breeders, animal sellers, and animal  keepers in the state of 
California.   Whether you breed, sell, or  keep animals, AB 2862 will affect 
you negatively if it  passes.     You don't need to live in California to voice  
your OPPOSITION to AB 2862.
 

As of today (8/8) AB 2862 has not been amended to address any of its  many 
serious problems, as was promised by its author at the 6/26  public hearing.    
Despite claims that the author and  sponsors are negotiating in good faith and 
have made the bill  acceptable, NO amendment containing ANY of the promised  
revisions has been posted yet on the CA legislature'on the CA 
legislature'<WBR>s websit    Still, the next hearing is set for  8/10    (2 days from now). 
 
The last version of AB 2862 published is
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(http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2851-2900/ab_2862_bill_20060619_amended_sen.html) 
 
AB 2862 seeks to impose restrictions on the sale of all  vertebrate animals 
(i.e., all animals with a spine, including  all mammals, birds, reptiles, and 
fish), and seeks to impose  very detailed husbandry standards on the keepers of 
all  vertebrate animals that are kept at "pet stores", which  under AB 2862 
are defined as "any establishment or marketplace where  animals are bought, 
sold, exchanged, or offered for sale to the general public  with the intent of 
making a profit where the animals are intended as companions  or household 
animals.    This term includes the keeping for  transfer or the transfer of animals 
at flea markets, department stores,  merchandise outlets, and discount 
outlets. "
 
AB 2862 defines an animal as "any nonhuman vertebrate species, and  includes
rodents intended as food for reptiles."

AB 2862 is vague, overbroad, includes serious criminal  penalties for minor 
and tecnical violations that don't harm animals, and does  not guarantee the 
humane treatment of any animals in "pet  stores".    California law already has 
strong criminal laws  on the books to identify and punish animal abuse.    
Adding  another layer of very restrictive legislation on pet breeders, sellers, 
and  keepers, (AB 2862) will not stop the abuse of animals by those who abuse  
them.    Enforcing the strict criminal laws already on  the books is the way 
to curb and punish animal abuse.
 
AB 2862 will make it very difficult, if not impossible, for all pet  breeders 
and pet sellers to continue to do business in  California.     If pet 
breeders and pet sellers are put  out of business, pet keepers will soon have no 
source of healthy, well  socialized pets.
 
AB 2862 is being used by Animal Rights activists as a template for  future 
restrictive legislation in other states.     If AB  2862 passes in California, 
we are informed that there are already plans to  introduce mirror legislation 
in other states.
 
Please take a few minutes TODAY to call, fax, and email the  5 members of the 
Senate Committee who are going to hear AB2862 again on  Thursday 8/10, and 
also contact the assemblymember who has sponsored  the bill.
 
 
Be sure to write PLEASE OPPOSE AB 2862  in the subject line of  your fax or 
email.    When you call, be sure to open with  PLEASE OPPOSE AB 2862.

 
There is no need to say anything else complicated, they probably  won't have 
time to read it or talk with you for any length of  time.    At this point the 
legislators are mostly  counting numbers pro and con.   They are rushing to 
pass about 1500  bills before the close of the California legislative session 
at the end of  August.
 
 
IF YOU OWN A PET, OR WANT TO CONTINUE TO BE ABLE TO OWN A PET, PLEASE HAVE  
THE COURAGE TO ACT NOW - AND STAND UP FOR PET BREEDING, PET SELLING, AND PET  
KEEPING IN CALIFORNIA.
 
Thank you.
 
Genny Wall
 

 
CONTACT INFORMATION:
 
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(http://members.optusnet.com.au/~laconic26/mainpic11.jpg) 

SENATE COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS &  ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT

Voice phone for the Committee office is 916-651-4104
Committee Fax  916-327-2433

Chair, Senator Liz Figueroa D-10 Fremont
State Capitol, Room  4061
Sacramento CA 95814
Phone (916) 651-4010
Fax: (916) 327-2433
_Senator.Figueroa at Senator.Fi_ (mailto:Senator.Figueroa at sen.ca.gov) 

Vice Chair Senator Bill Morrow R-38 Carlsbad
State Capitol, Room  4048
Sacramento CA 95814
Phone: (916) 651-4038
Fax: 916-446-7382
_Senator.Morrow at Senator.Mo_ (mailto:Senator.Morrow at sen.ca.gov) 

Senator Samuel Aanestad
Samuel Aanestad (R-4) Grass Valley
State  Capitol, Room 2054
Sacramento CA 95814
Phone: 916-651-4004
Fax:  916916-445-7750
_Senator.Aanestad at Senator.Aa_ (mailto:Senator.Aanestad at sen.ca.gov) 
_http://republican.http://repuhttp://repuhtt_ 
(http://republican.sen.ca.gov/web/4/feed.asp) 

Senator Dean Florez (D-16) Fresno
State Capitol, Room 5061
Sacramento  CA 95814
Phone (916) 651-4016
Fax: (916) 327-5989
_Senator.Florez at Senator.Fl_ (mailto:Senator.Florez at sen.ca.gov) 

Senator Joe Simitian (D-11) Palo Alto
State Capitol Room  4062
Sacramento CA 95814
Phone: (916) 651-4011
Fax: (916)  323-4529
_Senator.Simitian at Senator.Si_ (mailto:Senator.Simitian at sen.ca.gov) 

AB 2862 AUTHOR:
Assemblyman Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-48) Los  Angeles
State Capitol
P.O. Box 942849
Sacramento, CA  94249-0048
(916) 319 - 2048
Fax: (916) 319 - 2148
_Assemblymember.AssemblymemberAsm.ca.gov_ 
(mailto:Assemblymember.Ridley-Thomas at asm.ca.gov) 
 
 
 
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