Marian Price pushes for advancement of LB233
More than 20 senators already have picked their priority bills, and Lincoln Sen. Marian Price was first in line with a measure (LB233) that would maintain the state's new inspection program for commercial pet-breeding facilities. Price, who generally focuses on education and health-related issues, picked protecting pets as her priority bill because the inspection program that helps keep puppy mills out of the state was in jeopardy. Within six minutes Wednesday morning, the measure, which establishes higher fees to pay for the inspection program, gained first-round approval and was on its way to becoming law.
Price's measure increases the pet breeder licensing fee from $100 to $150 and adds humane societies and animal shelters to the list of places that must be licensed. It raises enough money, about $62,000 to $65,000 a year, to pay for continuing the state inspection program. "My putting a priority on this shows its importance," Price said. Before the licensing and inspection program was put in place, Nebraska was one of five states that had the reputation of having a number of illegal puppy mills. "Now we have lost that reputation," Price said. And she wants to keep it that way.
Please call or email Senator Price and thank her for her efforts to rid our state of puppy mills and for her continuing work to advance the status of animals in Nebraska. Senator Price can be reached at (402) 471-2610, or you can email her at mprice@unicam.state.ne.us.
More than 20 senators already have picked their priority bills, and Lincoln Sen. Marian Price was first in line with a measure (LB233) that would maintain the state's new inspection program for commercial pet-breeding facilities. Price, who generally focuses on education and health-related issues, picked protecting pets as her priority bill because the inspection program that helps keep puppy mills out of the state was in jeopardy. Within six minutes Wednesday morning, the measure, which establishes higher fees to pay for the inspection program, gained first-round approval and was on its way to becoming law.
Price's measure increases the pet breeder licensing fee from $100 to $150 and adds humane societies and animal shelters to the list of places that must be licensed. It raises enough money, about $62,000 to $65,000 a year, to pay for continuing the state inspection program. "My putting a priority on this shows its importance," Price said. Before the licensing and inspection program was put in place, Nebraska was one of five states that had the reputation of having a number of illegal puppy mills. "Now we have lost that reputation," Price said. And she wants to keep it that way.
Please call or email Senator Price and thank her for her efforts to rid our state of puppy mills and for her continuing work to advance the status of animals in Nebraska. Senator Price can be reached at (402) 471-2610, or you can email her at mprice@unicam.state.ne.us.
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