These bills would create environmental protections against waste from slaughterhouses utilized by large factory farms. The passage of these bills in the House has already caused one large slaughterhouse to temporarily shut down.
In acknowledgement of the link between animal, child, and elder abuse, this bill creates a list of human service professionals who are required to report animal abuse and mandates that animal control officers and humane investigators report child and elder abuse.
This legislation requires that any public or private university or college that receives state funds and uses it for animal research shall post a detailed report of such animal research on its website. Creating more transparency in research will create more accountability regarding what type of experimentation is done.
This bill establishes the offense of unlawfully tethering or chaining dogs. Details of the regulations can be found here.
This bill establishes standards in regards to retail charge agreements and installation contracts for companion animals. Oftentimes pet stores that sell animals from mills will charge exorbitant interest rates in order to make their sales. Learn more about predatory lending and pet stores here.
This creates a tax credit for individuals who adopt an animal from a shelter or rescue.
This bill will ban the use of gas chambers and shooting as a method of inducing death for cats and dogs by animal control agencies and shelters.
This legislation would weaken protections for waste flowing from large factory farms and endanger Missouri streams and waterways.
This bill is referred to as the Pet Store/Puppy Mill Protection Bill because it would eliminate local oversight of pet stores. It would not allow municipalities to prohibit the sale of puppies and kittens in pet stores, and it would go even further by not permitting effective regulations over the sale of puppies and kittens in pet stores. It would also allow pet stores to continue to acquire animals from inhumane puppy mills.
This bill would eliminate the current disposition process for abused and neglected animals and would allow abused and neglected animals to remain in the hands of their abusers until a criminal trial many months or even a year later.