Summary Of Registry For Animal Cruelty Ceremonies By Bob Salsberg
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Bob Salsberg, in the article, âMassachusetts Considers Registry for Animal Cruelty Convicts,â reports the growing development of a registry for convicted animal abusers and hoarders. Salsberg begins by describing the lawmakers of Massachusetts (and many other states) discussing a registry that can be accessible to any pet stores and adoption centers. Each facility will be able to identify any customer with a background of animal abuse or hoarding, and this will prevent them from adopting or buying another animal. The initial bill had the animal abuse registry, but the arrangement was not voted in the final version of the law. This article is important because it explains some of the actions taken by state and local governments to ensure that
Beacon Hill Roll Call Bob Katzen, Telegram & Gazette
Beacon Hill Roll Call
THE HOUSE AND SENATE
Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ votes on a roll call from the week of Jan. 25-29. There were no roll calls in the Senate last week.
CLIMATE CHANGE (S 9)
House 144-14, Senate on a voice vote without a roll call, approved and sent to Gov. Charlie Baker a 57-page climate change bill. A key section makes the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal net zero by 2050.
The bill is sponsored by Sen. Mike Barrett (D-Cambridge) and Rep. Thomas Golden (D-Lowell) who led the successful charge for legislative approval of the legislation for several months in 2020. An identical measure had passed the House 145-9 and the Senate 38-2 in 2020 - margins that were large enough for the Legislature to easily override any gubernatorial veto. But it was too late for that. The 2020 Legislature ended on January 5 and under legislative rules, any vetoe