PET SHOPS; SALE OF DOGS                                               H.B. 5916 (H-2) & 5917 (H-3):

                                                                                                    SUMMARY OF BILL

                                                                                      REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE

House Bill 5916 (Substitute H-2 as reported without amendment)

House Bill 5917 (Substitute H-3 as reported without amendment)

Sponsor:  Representative Hank Vaupel

House Committee:  Agriculture

Senate Committee:  Agriculture

CONTENT

House Bill 5916 (H-2) would amend Public Act 287 of 1969, which governs pet shops, animal control shelters, and animal protection shelter, to do the following:

-- Specify that in order to be a qualified pet shop, an owner, manager, or employee of the pet shop could not display, offer for sale, broker, give away, transfer, or sell a live dog from the shop to a person unless it was obtained from one of the sources specified in the bill.

-- Specify that in order to be a qualified pet shop, an owner, manager, or employee of the pet shop could not display, offer for sale, broker, give away, transfer, or sell a dog unless it met certain requirements.

-- Specify that in order to be a qualified pet shop, an owner, manager, or employee of the pet shop could not deliver, barter, auction, broker, give away, transfer, or sell a dog acquired from a qualified breeder or a dog retailer unless he or she provided to the person acquiring the dog, before the transaction, documentation that included the information specified by the bill.

-- Specify that the bill would not apply to a dog that was being sold, delivered, bartered, auctioned, given away, brokered, or transferred from the premises where the dog was bred and reared.

House Bill 5917 (H-3) would create a new law to prohibit a local unit of government from enacting or enforcing an ordinance, policy, resolution, or rule that arbitrarily banned a qualified pet shop located in that local unit of government.

House Bill 5917 (H-3) is tie-barred to House Bill 5916.

MCL 287.335a (H.B. 5916)                                                 Legislative Analyst:  Jeff Mann

FISCAL IMPACT

House Bill 5916 (H-2) would have a minimal fiscal impact on the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) and local governments. The MDARD and local governments do not license or routinely inspect pet shops; the role of these governmental units with respect to pet shops is primarily complaint-based.

Date Completed:  12-13-18                                                   Fiscal Analyst:  Bruce Baker

This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.