Rescue bun Kelly Slater has a reason to be excited as AB44 passed the California Assembly floor vote with NO EXCLUSION FOR RABBIT FUR yesterday afternoon. He and SaveABunny Executive Director and District 10 constituent Marcy Berman personally visited Assemblyman Marc Levine’s office before the vote to discuss the bill and Levine’s rabbit exclusion request. Levine ended up voting YES yesterday without any mention of rabbits.
The bill will now move on to the three Senate Committees on Natural Resources & Water, Judiciary and Appropriations before going to a full Senate vote.
While an amendment is still possible, the chances are getting slimmer with every vote, especially if we keep the pressure on through social media, emails and phone calls.
Please continue to sign/share the petition (I will make sure the Senate Committee Chairs get notifications) and contact your Senator and ask them to support AB44 unamended.
Follow this link to find your Senator: https://www.senate.ca.gov/senators
Follow these links to find out if your Senator if on one of the three Committees or send a position letter to the Committee:
- Natural Resources & Water Committee: https://sntr.senate.ca.gov/ or to send a position letter to the Committee use: senate.natural.resources@senate.ca.gov
- Judiciary Committee: https://sjud.senate.ca.gov/ or to send a position letter use: sjud.fax@sen.ca.gov
- Appropriations Committee: https://sapro.senate.ca.gov/ or to send a position letter go to: https://calegislation.lc.ca.gov/Advocates/
The bill passed in the full Assembly with 52 out of 80 votes. If you want to know where your Assembly member stands, here is the link:
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB44
If you are interested in adopting Kelly Slater http://www.saveabunny.org/rabbit/kelly-slater or the face of the petition, a sweet special needs girl called Tam http://www.saveabunny.org/rabbit/tam-0 please visit http://www.saveabunny.org/