SOCIAL COMPASSION IN LEGISLATION'S SWEEPING PACKAGE OF ANIMAL PROTECTION LEGISLATION IS MOVING CLOSER TO PASSAGE – FOUR BILLS CLEAR CRITICAL ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE
Bills cover diverse issues with wide-ranging impact: school lunches, deforestation, non-animal testing of hazardous waste, and the sale of cruel exotic animal skin products
THURSDAY, MAY 16
th
, 2019 – SACRAMENTO
– On a broad range of issues impacting the entire state, the California State Assembly took decisive action today to save animal lives and declare once again that the Golden State will stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. Four bills advanced through the Appropriations Committee, one of the most difficult hurdles to becoming law. The bills are:
- AB 479 (Nazarian), to provide plant-based meal and milk options in K-12 schools
- AB 572 (Kalra), the California Deforestation-Free Procurement Act, to require that all companies doing business with California have a no-deforestation policy
- AB 733 (Quirk), the Hazardous Waste Testing and Identification Act, to end an outdated practice of using live fish to test whether or not hazardous waste is dangerous
- AB 1260 (Maienschein), to ban the sale of skins ripped from exotic animals
“These life-saving and environmentally-conscious bills will end practices that have killed millions of animals for far too long,” said
Judie Mancuso, Founder and CEO of Social Compassion in Legislation, who co-sponsored each of the four bills. “I want to thank Appropriations Committee Chair Gonzalez and Speaker Rendon, the authors of these bills, our co-sponsors, and all the advocates who have stood with us to limit California’s complicity in cruelty.”
