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 Report on A.9975B/S.6942B which would eliminate the requirement that the impounding organization petition the court to obtain reimbursement for the expense of caring for an abused or neglected animal
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Subject area: abused animals
Report on A.8163 regarding the method of confinement of animals raised for food (May 2009)
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Subject area: Animal Confinement Methods
Report in support of S.2439 which would require the case tracking database relied on by the FBI to include all animal cruelty offenses
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Subject area: Animal Cruelty
Report on Legislation to Prohibit the Display of Wild and Exotic Animals for Public Entertainment
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Subject area: Animal Cruelty
Report regarding S.5206/A.7870 which would expand the existing definition of aggravated cruelty to animals.
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Subject area: Animal Cruelty
A.6158-A/S.4278 Animal population control program (June 2009)
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Subject area: Animal Population Control
Letter to Congress regarding The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, 18 U.S.C. § 43 (July 2009)
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Subject area: Animal Rights
Report expressing support for A.7402/S.3528 which would prohibit manufacturers and contract testing facilities from using traditional animal test methods for product safety testing when an alternative has been validated (May 2008)
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Subject area: Animal Testing
Report supporting A.1835/S.2142 which would amend the environmental conservation law to allow each county in New York State by local law or ordinance to restrict, limit or prohibit trapping within its municipal limits
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Subject area: Animal Trapping
Comments on Intro. No. 380, amending the Administrative Code of the City of New York, to clarify the rights of guardians and their companion animals in multiple dwellings; and to grant senior citizens residing in multiple dwellings the automatic right, regardless of three months elapsing, to have companion animals in their apartments
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Subject area: Animals
Letter to Governor Pataki urging him to sign S. 7616 which would prohibit the knowing possession, sale, barter, transfer, exchange or import of certain wild animals as pets
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Subject area: Animals
Letter to Governor Spitzer expressing concern over proposed budget cuts in two animal welfare laws, the Animal Population Program and the Pet Dealer Licensing Law
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Subject area: Animals
Letter to New York City Office of Emergency Management Regarding the need for Emergency Procedures for the Benefit of Animals in Times of Crisis
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Subject area: Animals
Letter to the Department of Agriculture offering recommendations on a variety of topics the Department should consider as it develops policies relating to non-human animals (February 2009)
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Subject area: Animals
Memorandum opposing S. 3330-A/A. 6212-A which would amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to making it unlawful to force feed birds under certain circumstances unless it is modified to make the unreasonably long implementation period of 11 years shorter
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Subject area: Animals
Memorandum supporting S.2539/A.1641 which would amend the Agriculture and Markets Law to make it a class A misdemeanor to abandon an animal, whether such abandonment occurs in a public or a private place. This amendment is necessary because the current law only prohibits the abandonment of animals in public places
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Subject area: Animals
Report is support of New York City Council Resolution 497 which calls for the increased compliance with Section 809 of the New York State Education Law, which requires instruction on the humane treatment and protection of animals
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Subject area: Animals
Report regarding S.4808/A.1163 which would amend the Public Health Law to prohibit manufacturers and contract testing facilities from using traditional animal test methods for product safety testing when an alternative has been validated and recommended by the ICCVAM (Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods) and subsequently adopted by the relevant federal agency
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Subject area: Animals
Report supporting S.7691/A.10767 which would amend the Family Court Act and Criminal Procedure Law, in relation to animals being protected under the provisions of a court order of protection
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Subject area: Animals
Report to Governor Spitzer offering suggested actions by regarding important policy decisions facing the incoming administration that will have a substantial effect on the lives of New York’s animals
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Subject area: Animals
Report commenting on the Great Ape Protection Act (H.R. 5852) (July 2008)
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Subject area: Ape Protection
Report in support of HR 3029 which would prohibit the trade, both domestic and international of bear viscera
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Subject area: Bear poaching
Report in support of S.784/A.2612 which would extend the prohibition on conducting a canned hunt in a confined area of less than 10 acres to conducting one in a fenced or other area from which there is no means for such animal to escape
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Subject area: Canned Hunts
Report on S.1916/H.3295 the Chimpanzee National Sanctuary Systems (CHIMP Act)
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Subject area: Chimpanzees
Access Rights of People with Disabilities and their Service Animals
Subject area: Disabilities
Testimony before the New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene on permitting animals off-leash in parks
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Subject area: Dog Runs
Testimony before the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, February 22, 2007 commenting on the current policy of permitting off-leash exercise and socialization for dogs in designated parks
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Subject area: Dog runs
Report expressing support for A.6553/S.2052 which would prohibit dogs from being tethered for more than six hours in any twenty-four hour period.
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Subject area: Dog tethering
Report expressing support for New York City Council proposed ordinance Sec. 17-102 which would restrict tethering of dogs that takes place outdoors to no more than three continuous hours in any 12-hour period
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Subject area: Dog tethering
Report on S.3352/A.10564 and S.7847/A.10843 which would alleviate some of the cruelty that exists with respect to nonambulatory and downed animals in agriculture
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Subject area: Downed animals
Letter to the United State Department of the Interior urging action be taken to prevent or delay the extinction of endangered species and to ensure that their habitat is preserved (February 2009)
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Subject area: Endangered Species
Report on the Shark Conservation Act of 2009 - S.850 (August 2009)
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Subject area: Fishing
Report supporting A-4897 and S-3529 which would amend the Agriculture and Markets Law to penalize as a Class A misdemeanor the intentional killing or stunning of any fur-bearing animal by means of an electrical current
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Subject area: Fur Bearing animals
Report on H.R.891/S.3610 which would amend the Dog and Cat Fur Prohibition Enforcement Act to require labeling of all fur products regardless of value.
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Subject area: Fur Labeling
Letter to Congress on S. 1959, The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007
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Subject area: Homegrown Terrorism
Comments on the New York City Council bill Intro. No. 658, which would amend the Administrative Code of the City of New York by repealing all provisions allowing for the operation of horse drawn cabs (January 2008)
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Subject area: Horse drawn carriages
Letter to the NYC Department of Health offering to assist the newly formed Advisory Board to promote the health, safety and well-being of licensed horses in revamping the existing laws governing the carriage horse industry in New York City (September 2007)
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Subject area: Horse drawn carriages
Report regarding New York City Council Bill Intro. No. 653-A which would amend the administrative code of New York City in relation to the regulation of horse drawn cabs (January 2009)
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Subject area: Horse drawn carriages
Report supporting New York City Council bill Intro. No. 44 which would amend the New York City Administrative Code in relation to horse drawn carriages
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Subject area: Horse drawn carriages
Testimony before the New York City Council regarding Intro. No. 658-A and Intro. No. 653-A which concern the regulation of horse drawn cabs (January 2009)
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Subject area: Horse drawn carriages
Report regarding the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act - H.R. 503/S.311(July 2008)
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Subject area: Horses, Slaughter of
Report on A.10344/S.7848 which would amend the education law, in relation to classroom instruction in the humane treatment of animals and the requirement of training in the humane treatment of animals for the certification or licensing of classroom teachers
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Subject area: Humane Education
Letter to New York Medical College urging it discontinue the use of live dogs in physiology and surgery laboratories on legal, scientific, and ethical grounds.
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Subject area: Labratory Animals
Letter to Stony Brook University Medical School urging it discontinue the use of live dogs in physiology and surgery laboratories on legal, scientific, and ethical grounds
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Subject area: Labratory Animals
Report supporting H.R. 3858 (Pet Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act) which seeks to amend current law to ensure that State and local emergency preparedness operational plans address the needs of individuals with household pets and service animals following a major disaster or emergency
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Subject area: Mass Disaster Planning
Report on A.5985-A/S.3070-A which would amend EPTL Section 7-8.1 to eliminate the 21 year limit for the duration of pet trusts (January 2010)
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Subject area: Pet trusts
Report proposing legislation which would eliminate the 21-year limit for the duration of pet trusts (November 2008)
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Subject area: Pet trusts
Int. No. 203 - Amending the Administrative Code of the City of New York to Allow Senior Citizens Residing in Multiple Dwellings the Right to Keep Pets in Their Apartments
Subject area: Pets
Report in support of S.1660/A.1825 which would require that no person 62 years of age or older would be denied occupancy in, or evicted from, a multiple dwelling on the sole ground that he or she keeps a common household pet, so long as the keeping of the pet is not prohibited by applicable law and the pet does not constitute a nuisance or cause damage to the premises
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Subject area: Pets
Report in support of The "Pet Safety and Protection Act" (S.714/HR1280)
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Subject area: Pets
Report on a Proposal 1986 to Treat Charitable Remainder Pet Trusts in a Similar Manner to Charitable Remainder Annuity Trusts and Charitable Remainder Unitrusts
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Subject area: Pets
Report on A.311/S.558 which would amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to fire hazard safety standards for animal housing maintained by pet dealers and A.312/S.559 which would to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to requiring certain pet dealers to maintain an automatic dialing device to facilitate automatic notification in the event of a fire emergency
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Subject area: Pets
Report supporting A.1839/S.3167 which would establish Senior Pet Companionship Programs
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Subject area: Pets
Report on A.7285-B/S.5392-A regarding the regulation and treatment of breeding dogs (June 2009)
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Subject area: Puppy mills
Letter to Governor Patterson regarding S.5920-A/A.00246B which would prohibit the issuance of licenses to new slaughterhouses located within 1,500 feet of residential properties
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Subject area: Slaughterhouses
Memorandum supporting S.2517/A.1280 which would amend section 96-b of the Agriculture and Markets Law to provide for the mandatory revocation of licenses of operators of slaughterhouses upon the failure of three consecutive sanitary inspections
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Subject area: Slaughterhouses
A.4884/S.2996 An Act to Amend the Agriculture and Markets Law in Relations to Unlawful Tampering with Animal Activities
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Subject area: Terrorism
Report expressing opposition to H.R. 4239, the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA)
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Subject area: Terrorism
Report on A.4777/S.5423 which would permit each county to restrict, limit or prohibit trapping within is municipal limits (June 2009)
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Subject area: Trapping
Letter regarding the worldwide moratorium on commercial whaling (June 2009)
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Subject area: Whaling
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