AB 2745	Strickland	Animal diseases: quarantines: Contagious Equine Metritis.	I-02/20/2004
	02/22/2004-From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
	Contagious Equine Metritis. This bill would allow the Department of Agriculture, upon adopting regulations, to grant, deny, and rescind licenses for private facilities to provide precautionary quarantines intended to prevent the spread of Contagious Equine Metritis and other diseases of imported animals. The bill would require the department to impose fees that cover, but do not exceed, the complete costs of regulating, overseeing, and administering this provision. This bill contains other existing laws.
	Click here for Bill text, analysis, votes, etc. Leginfo Link This bill would allow the Department of Food and Agriculture to permit a private Contagious Equine Metritis Quarantine facility. CTBA has been working with the Center for Equine Health at UCD on the language and we have expressed some serious concerns with the concept. Discussions are continuing with the sponsor, the author and the CEH.
ACR 166	Nation	Day of the Horse.	I-01/26/2004
	01/29/2004-Referred to Com. on RLS.
	This measure would designate the 2nd Saturday of every December as the Day of the Horse.
	Click here for Bill text, analysis, votes, etc. Leginfo Link This resolution would permenantly designate the 2^nd Saturday of December as the Day of the Horse. There have been resoultions for that last two years to do this annualy and this one would make it permanent.
SB 1852	Vincent	Horses: hire and boarding regulations.	I-02/20/2004
	02/21/2004-From print. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
	Existing law authorizes a peace officer, officer of a humane society, or officer of an animal control or animal regulation department of a public agency to issue a citation to a person or entity keeping horses or other equine animals for hire if the person or entity fails to meet standards of humane treatment regarding the keeping of horses or other equine animals. This bill would expand the group of people to whom an officer may issue a citation to include a person or entity keeping horses or other equine animals for boarding who fails to meet those standards. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
	Click here for Bill text, analysis, votes, etc. Leginfo Link This is another bill that CTBA has expressed concerns about. It would increase the regulations on “boarding facilities” (without defining them) and in initital discussions with the author, we’ve expressed our concerns. The way the bill is currently written, it could require boarded horses to be excrecized daily without regard to whether or not it is in the best interest of individual horses. CTBA is working with the author to address our concerns.