Bill Text: CA AB2152 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Public health: prohibition on the retail sale of dogs, cats, and rabbits.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2020-09-18 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 96, Statutes of 2020. [AB2152 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB2152-Amended.html
Bill Title: Public health: prohibition on the retail sale of dogs, cats, and rabbits.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2020-09-18 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 96, Statutes of 2020. [AB2152 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB2152-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2152
| Introduced by Assembly Members Gloria and O’Donnell (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bloom, Boerner Horvath, Chiu, and Waldron) |
February 10, 2020 |
An act to repeal and add Section 122354.5 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2152, as amended, Gloria.
Public health: prohibition on the retail sale of dogs, cats, and rabbits.
Existing law, the Pet Store Animal Care Act, requires pet store operators, as defined, to comply with laws governing, among other things, the care of animals in pet stores. Existing law makes a pet store operator who violates these provisions guilty of a misdemeanor, unless otherwise provided.
Existing law prohibits a pet store operator from selling a live dog, cat, or rabbit in a pet store unless the animal was obtained from a public animal control agency or shelter, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals shelter, humane society shelter, or rescue group, as specified. Existing law imposes various requirements on a pet store operator, including, among others, that the pet store maintain sufficient records to document the origin of each dog, cat, or rabbit the pet store sells or provides space for, for at least one year. Existing law
exempts a pet store operator who violates those provisions from criminal prosecution and imposes a civil penalty on pet store operators for those violations.
This bill, instead, would prohibit a pet store from adopting out, selling, or offering for sale a dog, cat, or rabbit. The bill would authorize a pet store to provide space to a public animal control agency or shelter, or an animal rescue group, to showcase adoptable animals provided the animal displayed for adoption is both sterilized and adoptable for total fees not to exceed $500. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature to authorize a civil penalty for a pet store that violates these provisions. The bill would prohibit the pet
store displaying the dogs, cats, or rabbits from receiving any fees in connection with that display. The bill would prohibit a public animal control agency or shelter, an animal rescue group displaying animals at a pet store, or an animal rescue group operating a retail establishment from offering dogs, cats, or rabbits for adoption unless the animals are sterilized, the animals are adoptable for total fees, including adoption fees, not exceeding $500, and the adoption fees are posted and visible to the public, as described. The bill would authorize civil penalties and injunctive relief for a violation of these provisions, as specified. The bill would also repeal other requirements, including, among others, the requirement for a pet store to maintain sufficient records to
document the origin of each dog, cat, or rabbit the pet store sells or provides space for adoption.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 122354.5 of the Health and Safety Code is repealed.SEC. 2.
Section 122354.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:122354.5.
(a) A pet store shall not adopt out, sell, or offer for sale a dog, cat, or rabbit. This section does not prevent a pet store from providing space to display animals for adoption in accordance with subdivision (b).(b) (1) A pet store shall not provide space for the display of dogs, cats, or rabbits available for adoption unless the animals are displayed by either a public animal control agency or shelter, or animal rescue group.
(2) Any animal displayed for adoption shall be both sterilized and adoptable for total fees, including, but not limited to, adoption fees, not to exceed five
hundred dollars ($500).
(3) The pet store displaying dogs, cats, or rabbits pursuant to paragraph (1) shall not receive any fees in connection with the display of dogs, cats, or rabbits.
(c) A public animal control agency or shelter, an animal rescue group displaying animals at a pet store, or an animal rescue group operating a retail establishment shall not offer dogs, cats, or rabbits for adoption unless the animals are sterilized, the animals are adoptable for total fees, including, but not limited to, adoption fees, not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500), and the adoption fees are posted and visible to the public on or near the enclosures or areas where adoptable animals are displayed.
(c)
(d) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) An “animal rescue group” is any not-for-profit organization that has tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, whose mission and practice is, in whole or significant part, the rescue and placement of animals into permanent homes, and that meets the following requirements:
(A) Does not breed animals.
(B) Does not obtain animals in
exchange for payment or compensation from any person that breeds or brokers animals.
(C)Is not located on the same premises where a person breeds animals.
(D)Does not have any personnel in common with a person that breeds animals.
(E)Does not facilitate the sale or offer for sale of animals that were obtained from a person that breeds animals.
(2) “Public animal
control agency or shelter” is any facility operated by or under contract with any governmental entity for the purpose of impounding or harboring seized, stray, homeless, abandoned, or unwanted dogs, cats, rabbits, or other animals.
(d)
(e) For purposes of this section, “pet store” does not include a retail establishment operated by a bona fide animal rescue group offering animals for adoption that are sterilized, and if total fees for each animal,
including, but not limited to, adoption fees, do not exceed five hundred dollars ($500). an animal rescue group operating a retail establishment in compliance with subdivision (c).
(e)
(f) This section does not prohibit a local governing body from adopting requirements that are more protective of animal welfare than those set forth in this section.
(f)It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize a civil penalty for a violation of this section.
(g) A violation of this section shall result in a single notice to correct, which shall detail the specific violation of this section, the corrective action that must be taken, and the time period in which it must be corrected. A failure to correct the violation in the time period stated in the notice to correct shall be punished by a civil penalty of one thousand dollars ($1,000) for a first violation, two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) for a second violation, and five thousand dollars ($5,000) for subsequent violations of the same provision. Each animal adopted, sold, or offered for sale in violation of subdivision (a) constitutes a separate violation.
(h) An action for a violation of this section may be brought in the name of the people of the State of California by the district attorney for the county where the violation occurred in the appropriate court or by the city
attorney in the city where the violation occurred. In addition to any other remedy, the district attorney is authorized to apply to the court for, and that court shall have jurisdiction upon hearing and for cause shown to grant, a temporary or permanent injunction enjoining or restraining any person or entity from violating any provision of this section.
