Fw: RE: Please oppose S.B. 250

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This is a response that I get from a short sighted senator. His attitude just pisses me off! Grr!

Nancie

 

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Senator Cox

5/12/2009 11:36:17 AM

deifspirit

RE: Please oppose S.B. 250

 

Thank you for contacting my office to express your views regarding

Senate Bill 250 (Florez) relating to pet spaying and neutering. I

appreciate hearing from you.

 

SB 250 is a variation of last year's highly controversial AB 1634, a

bill that was defeated on the Senate Floor on August 22, 2008 by a wide

margin -- with only five Senators voting in favor of the bill and 27

voting in opposition. I voted in opposition to AB 1634.

 

As I have made clear since the introduction of this and similar bills,

my continued opposition stems from my experience as a County Supervisor.

Animal control policies and ordinances fall under the jurisdiction of

local government. Each county or city has the right and authority to

establish its own animal control policies and priorities. These may

differ from county to county and city to city. I recognize the author's

intent of reducing the population of unwanted pets in our communities;

however, I remain convinced that such policies should be left to local

government discretion rather than dictated by the state.

 

Several local jurisdictions have approved fairly strict local ordinances

based upon the animal control needs of those individual communities. I

fully respect and support the local representatives' decision to

implement them, while also recognizing that similar ordinances may not

be desirable or necessary in other areas of the state.

 

SB 250 passed the Senate Local Government Committee on April 15 by a

vote of 3-1. I voted in opposition to SB 250 when it came before me in

committee. The bill has since been moved to the Senate Appropriations

Suspense File. Suspense items will be addressed collectively at one or

more separate hearings later in the session.

 

If you are interested in tracking the progress of this legislation, you

may access the status, votes, bill text and analyses of this and other

legislation from my Senate home page at www.senate.ca.gov/cox.

 

Again, thank you for taking the time to express your views.

 

Sincerely,

 

DAVE COX

Senator, First District