this law as passed by the OH Legislature is a travesty for all animal rescues in Ohio. It does not include for-profits like Pet stores, sporting/hunting dog breeders or backyard breeders yet places undo regulations/restrictions on NOT FOR PROFIT/VOLUNTEER animal rescues, sanctuaries and dog foster care providers! A troubling aspect of S.B. 130 is that is fails to put in place reporting and disclosure mechanisms that will allow the Ohio State Tax Commission to track commercial breeders and collect sales taxes. One puppy mill operator testified in the legislature last year that commercial dog breeders bring in $9 million per year to Holmes County alone. The state and local governments did not receive tax revenue from those sales of dogs. That is because many of these commercial breeding operations are not licensed or registered; the county as well as the state is losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales tax revenues. The state has estimated losses of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in sales tax not collected from dog breeders.
Also, S.B. 130 would leave thousands of puppy mills and backyard breeders unregulated in Ohio.
Curiously, S.B. 130 gives carte blanche authority to the Kennel Club of America to regulate rescues. The bill states KCA will issue "[r]equirements and procedures governing animal rescues for dogs, including the licensing and inspection of and record keeping by animal rescues for dogs, in addition to the requirements and procedures established in this chapter". Yet, the KCA Board would only have one representative from an animal welfare organization such as a spca or humane society. An agency run by breeders and the cottage industries they feed would be regulating rescues in Ohio.
If the GOP majority in the Ohio House had acted upon former State Representative L.George Distel's(OH99) HB45 back in 2007. The massacre in Zanesville would not have happened.
Bill to restrict puppy-mills passes Ohio House
this law as passed by the OH Legislature is a travesty for all animal rescues in Ohio. It does not include for-profits like Pet stores, sporting/hunting dog breeders or backyard breeders yet places undo regulations/restrictions on NOT FOR PROFIT/VOLUNTEER animal rescues, sanctuaries and dog foster care providers! A troubling aspect of S.B. 130 is that is fails to put in place reporting and disclosure mechanisms that will allow the Ohio State Tax Commission to track commercial breeders and collect sales taxes. One puppy mill operator testified in the legislature last year that commercial dog breeders bring in $9 million per year to Holmes County alone. The state and local governments did not receive tax revenue from those sales of dogs. That is because many of these commercial breeding operations are not licensed or registered; the county as well as the state is losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales tax revenues. The state has estimated losses of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in sales tax not collected from dog breeders.
Also, S.B. 130 would leave thousands of puppy mills and backyard breeders unregulated in Ohio.
Curiously, S.B. 130 gives carte blanche authority to the Kennel Club of America to regulate rescues. The bill states KCA will issue "[r]equirements and procedures governing animal rescues for dogs, including the licensing and inspection of and record keeping by animal rescues for dogs, in addition to the requirements and procedures established in this chapter". Yet, the KCA Board would only have one representative from an animal welfare organization such as a spca or humane society. An agency run by breeders and the cottage industries they feed would be regulating rescues in Ohio.
Why else S.B. 130 doesn't work for Ohio:
http://www.animallawcoalition.com/com...
December 2, 2012 at 10:28 a.m. permalink suggest removal
It shouldn’t take a tragedy for Ohio to do what must be done
If the GOP majority in the Ohio House had acted upon former State Representative L.George Distel's(OH99) HB45 back in 2007. The massacre in Zanesville would not have happened.
.http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=127_HB_45
Instead the GOP majority killed it by letting it linger in committee
October 21, 2011 at 10:44 a.m. permalink suggest removal