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SB250 is still a REAL ISSUE. IT IS BACK. FLOREZ MUST TRY TO HAVE IT PASS WITHIN DAYS

TIME AND YOUR ACTION WILL BE OF THE ESSENCE.

It is STILL "A ONE STRIKE AND YOU CAN NEVER LEGALLY OWN INTACT DOGS OR CATS BILL"

MORE INFO AS SOON AS IT BECOMES AVAILABLE.

SB250 UP FOR A VOTE IN NEXT FEW DAYS

Tuesday, August 17th 7:00 pm

Although Senator Florez has consistently declined to meet with the stakeholders, he has brought SB250 back for a vote

Senator Florez has done nothing to address the concerns about this bill.

*  It is still secondary MSN.

*  It does not exclude the people who are raising the future service dogs.

*  There are no exemptions for search and rescue dogs; if they work off lead they are in violation.

*  There are no changes to keep this from costing the State of California millions of dollars.

*  There are still not consistent rules for appeal.  

In fact, one of the amendments to the bill is to allow people, when there is no appeal process, to go to Superior Court in their County.  There's an approachable place for poor and under-educated people.

You can see the amendments to the bill here; they are marked in yellow.

In the next 24 hours we will have sample letters and contact information on here and Save Our Dogs website (www.saveourdogs.net).

Getting letters and phone calls to the Assembly Members and the Senators over the next few days is imperative.  We will also want as many people as possible up in Sacramento to walk the halls. Remember, with the changes, this must now go back to the Senate for concurrence. There are no committees here so we need to reach out to almost all of the legislators.

At this point it will all come down to education and input from constituents.

We will need eveyones help to keep him from rushing this through.  Although we had legislators educated last year, they have forgotten about the serious issues with this bill.  So we need to start all over again and we only have a very few days.

Remember, they have reviewed another 2000 pieces of legislation since they last heard about SB250 and you can be sure Florez will not be presenting it properly.

We defeated AB1634 and we held off SB250 so far. Do not let the final act of the legislature be to hand Judie Mancuso the end of dogs as we know them.

Tomorrow we will have forms set up so you can let us know if you can come to Sacramento.  So please check the website often.

Together we can do this.