BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. When the Missouri legislature isn’t working on repealing child labor laws, it’s going after puppies. Today, the House Agriculture Policy committee voted to support HB 131, which isn’t a surprise. As I just wrote, HB 131 pretends to be a “modification” of Proposition B but completely guts it. The Rural Community […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Several state senators and organizations have stated that the Senate bill to “modify” Proposition B leaves most of Prop B’s rules the same—only the dog limit and enforcement regulations are changed. Let’s take a closer look at these assertions. Following is the text for Proposition B: 273.345. 1. This section […]
The Missouri Alliance for Animal Legislation (MAAL) has posted its own list of Proposition B votes by Senate district. It’s also in the process of posting the same vote distribution for the House of Representative districts, but you can see the list now, at the Humane Society Legislative Fund. From the data, it looks like the folks went […]
A public hearing will be held on HJR 17, the so-called Freedom in Agriculture Act on February 15th, at 8 am in House Hearing Room 7. As the Sheriden Express newspaper recently noted, this is also another indirect attack on Proposition B. What this Act states is that the citizens could no longer bring about any initiative related to animals. This […]
The legislation I talked about in the last article, HJR 17, is sponsored by Representative Jason Smith. If you attended the House meetings on Proposition B bills in the last few weeks, you probably witnessed Representative Smith’s aggressive grilling of those testifying for Proposition B. Though not part of the committee holding the hearings, Representative Smith […]