Under existing law, it is illegal to own, maintain, sell, or trade any canidae or felidae for which there is no USDA licensed rabies vaccine.
This bill would further provide for the possession of certain canidae or felidae for which there is no USDA licensed rabies vaccine.
This bill would make it illegal to possess, sell, transfer, or breed any large felidae, defined as a tiger, lion, leopard, snow leopard, clouded leopard, jaguar, cheetah, or cougar, or any wolf, with certain exceptions.
This bill would allow persons who lawfully possessed a large felidae or wolf prior to the effective date of this bill to keep the animal under certain conditions.
This bill would provide penalties for violations.
Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.
The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 233
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 232
Public Safety and Homeland Security Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
Source: Alabama Legislature