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Posted on 08/21/2007 3:13:22 PM PDT by Peace4EarthNow
Dear Utah Advocates,
We have just been informed that Governor Huntsman has called a special session of the Legislature to be held tomorrow, Wednesday, August 22, and one of the issues that will be discussed is Henry's Bill/SB 190.
Henry’s Bill would make deliberate animal torture a third-degree felony in Utah, one of the only states in the nation that does not have a felony animal torture law on its books. The bill passed both the House and Senate during the regular 2007 session, but ultimately a new amendment thwarted the bill in the final minutes of the session.
Please call your state senator and representative today and urge them to support this important humane bill, and emphasize that the bill must make the act of animal torture a third-degree felony on the first offense. Some legislators are now supporting the bill, but wish for the felony penalty to apply only on a SECOND offense. We believe that this severely weakens the bill.
What You Can Do You can help make Utah the 44th state to have a felony provision in its animal cruelty statutes, but you must act fast! Please call both your state senator and representative immediately, and urge them to support passage of Henry’s Bill.
We thank you for your continued support of the ASPCA and Utah’s animals!
We still have 45 minutes before the state offices close here in Utah, and hopefully will also have some time tomorrow morning to call & make our voices heard on this!
Doggie list ping, please??
Just curious what they deem torture?
susie
What a waste of public resources.
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As soon as it passes the animal rights nutballs will find a liberal judge to twist it to ban hunting, fishing, and trapping. They may even use it against normal farming practices.
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<< Just curious what they deem torture? >>
Highlighted Provisions:
13 This bill:
14 amends the definition of necessary food, care, and shelter to include water and
15 shelter as appropriate to the animal and moves the definitions to the beginning of
16 the section;
17 clarifies the general applicability of the exemption for acting under a legal privilege;
18 provides an exemption for animals kept and used for training hunting dogs and
19 falcons and also for animals kept or owned by a zoological park;
20 includes the offense of seriously injuring an animal;
21 provides that torturing an animal is a third degree felony;
22 provides that the court shall state on the record the reasons a person convicted of
23 animal cruelty is not required to receive treatment, pay restitution, or to not have
24 possession of animals for a specified period;
25 provides that after the first priority of placing the animal through adoption, the
26 option of offering the animal for sale at auction precedes the option of euthanasia;
27 and
28 amends the definition of conviction to include pleas in abeyance or of nolo
29 contendere.
(That’s what I’ve found so far).......
hardly. You have Limited thinking. The felony charges are not about only worrying about animal torture. It is to gain leverage on the sick people that do this. WHY? Because of the STRONG STATISTICAL CORRELATION of animal abuse with human abuse.
It is one way to get at those who abuse children, etc.
Also, it gives us a heads up on serial killers.
Why do you think the laws have become stricter and stricter? Its not just a bunch of bleeding heart animal lovers. Ask any Law enforcement person and they will tell you it is to get at those who abuse people.
However, there are too many crazy judges who just make up their own laws and rule like dictators. They do not need a law to make this kind of decision.
Not sure if that remains, but I don't trust this bill and have serious concerns about what the judicial system will do with this.
I can understand your concern, but I believe this is just an opportunity to give more jail time to the people like the Michael Vick’s of Utah, instead of just a slap on the wrist like it is now.....
No way. We have enough laws already. And the current Utah laws were misused to prosecute a grandfather who killed a rat in his backyard to keep it away from his grandchildren.
No way I support laws that give wackos like the SPCA and Humane Society more power.
I also think the law will only result in people pleading guilty to a misdemeanor and fail to get any counseling. A felony will only further burden the correctional facilities and also result in the lack of counseling. Jails are getting full with inmates and would hope that this wouldn't result in this type of felon being incarcerated while a child molester gets to walk on an abbreviated sentence.
I think we would be better served to require the counseling (at defendant's expense).
Bump.
I live in the State. I oppose this bill.
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