Bills

SB 1022: ANIMAL ENDANGERMENT; PET ANIMALS; UNATTENDED VEHICLES; CONFINEMENT; RESCUE; IMMUNITY

  • Session Year: 2025-2026
  • House: Senate
  • Latest Version Date: 2025-03-18

Current Status:

In Progress

(2025-12-08: Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.)

Introduced

In Committee

First Chamber

In Committee

Second Chamber

Final Decking

Enacted

Version:

Allows animal control officers, law enforcement officers, and firefighters to enter an unattended vehicle to protect the health, safety, or well-being of a pet animal that is endangered by being left or confined in an unattended vehicle.  Allows private citizens to retrieve a pet animal that has been left in an unattended vehicle, under certain circumstances.  Effective 7/1/3000.  (HD1)

Discussed in Hearing

House Standing Committee on Agriculture & Food Systems5MIN
Mar 14, 2025

House Standing Committee on Agriculture & Food Systems

Senate Floor25SEC
Mar 4, 2025

Senate Floor

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