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We Need Your Call Now for All the Children Who Do Not Want Their Animal Slaughtered!

April 23, 2024
AB 3053 will ensure that, in the rare instances where a 4H/FFA family wants to spare their animal's life, or a winning bidder wants to pick up the animal alive, they can do so without the legal drama and emotional trauma others have experienced in the past.
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We Need Your Calls to Help Kids Save Their Animals!

April 19, 2024
Call Now for Cedar and All the Children Who Do Not Want Their Animal Slaughtered!
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3 SCIL Sponsored Bills Advance in Legislature!

April 10, 2024
1️⃣ AB 2133 passed the Assembly Business and Professions Committee with a final vote of 13-3! 2️⃣ AB 3162 passed the Assembly Committee on Water, Parks, and Wildlife with a vote of 13-1! 3️⃣ AB 1983 passed the full Assembly with a vote of 70-0!
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Animal Dissection Bill Passes Committee with a Unanimous Vote!

April 10, 2024
AB 2640, The Class (Compassionate Advancements in Science Studies) Act, authored by Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) and sponsored by Social Compassion in Legislation, PETA and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, passed the Assembly Education Committee with a unanimous vote of 6-to-0.
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Call to Action for Four Bills! AB 2012 Passes First Committee!

April 3, 2024
AB 2012 Unanimously Passes Assembly Business & Professions Committee! Now we need your help with 4 upcoming bills.
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Hearings coming up! Please Read if You Want to Support Our Sponsored Bills!

March 26, 2024
If you want to support the bills SCIL is sponsoring in 2024, you must sign up to do so, even if you signed on to support all our bills in 2023. Time is of the essence as five of our bills will be voted on in their first committee hearings between April 2nd and April 10th.
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ACR 86 Passes Full Legislature! Call to Action to Keep Griffith Park Cruelty-Free!

March 18, 2024
ACR 86 passed its final hurdle today on the Senate floor, setting the stage for more action to save animals' lives. ➡️ We are sponsoring or supporting important bills this year, including six that are a direct response to ACR 86. What we need most from you right now is a donation of any size to help cover the costs associated with moving these bills forward.
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New Bill Will Expand Dog Breeder Regulations and Increase Shelter Transparency.

March 13, 2024
AB 2425 will expand the definition of dog breeder and ensure that all dogs sold by breeders are microchipped and vaccinated, include provisions requiring that shelters post the adoption availability of animals on their website or a third-party website, and order the California DFA to conduct a study on overcrowding in California shelters and potential remedies.
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Kalra, PETA, PCRM and SCIL Team Up to Bolster Students' Right to Opt Out of Animal Dissection

March 12, 2024
Dissecting animals is costly, exposes students and educators to carcinogenic chemicals, and hurts the environment. Each year in the U.S., an estimated 10 million animals are killed for dissection.
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AB 1983 Passes First Committee Hearing!

March 4, 2024
Reminder to Sign Up to Support All of SCIL's Sponsored Legislation! Your support in the form of letters, calls, and social media engagement will be key to passing laws that save animal lives.
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Judie Mancuso running for Laguna Beach City Council!

February 27, 2024
I am excited to announce that I am running for Laguna Beach City Council. I’ll still be here at SCIL, working day and night to build the broadest possible coalitions to pass laws that protect the planet and all the creatures we share it with.
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Support AB 1983: First hearing date coming up, we need your support!

February 23, 2024
AB 1983, Preventing Euthanasia to Save (P.E.T.S.) Act reinstates the tax check-off program to fund spaying and neutering. It was just assigned its first committee hearing for March 4th and needs your letters of support ASAP by 3PM Monday, February 26th!
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KTLA5: Octopus farming ban introduced in California State Assembly

February 21, 2024
by: Will Conybeare | California State Assemblymember Steve Bennett (D-38) has introduced AB 3162 – known as the California Oppose Cruelty to Octopuses (OCTO) Act – to prohibit octopus farming on land and water as well as ban the import of farmed octopus to California.
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AB 3162, the OCTO Act, Introduced to Ban Octopus Farming!

February 20, 2024
Bill will ensure that octopus farms, and the risks inherent to them, are not allowed in California.
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Breaking News: AB 3053 introduced to save farm animals' lives!

February 16, 2024
AB 3053 INTRODUCED! New legislation will ensure uniform rules to allow families participating in junior agricultural programs to opt out of slaughter-only auctions.
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Help Stop the Utility Tax. YES on AB 1999!

February 8, 2024
Below is a letter that ran recently in local papers about a harmful “Utility Tax” that snuck through the legislature last year and that a group of lawmakers is now working to repeal. It’s something we should all care about, as climate-conscious individuals, and as utility ratepayers.
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AB 2133 Introduced to Expand Access to Cat Neuters!

February 7, 2024
Assemblymember Ash Kalra and Social Compassion in Legislation introduce AB 2133. New legislation will help address pet overpopulation by expanding access to cat neuter services.
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Meet Judie Mancuso

February 6, 2024
Hi Judie, so happy you were able to devote some time to sharing your thoughts and wisdom with our community. So, we’ve always admired how you have seemingly never let nay-sayers or haters keep you down. Can you talk to us about how to persist despite the negative energy that so often is thrown at folks trying to do something special with their lives?
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Compassion in Legislation introduce AB 2012 requiring the DPH to resume collection and reporting of specific shelter data

January 31, 2024
A previous version of this bill was introduced in 2023 but was held in the Senate Appropriations Committee. It is being reintroduced with amendments that address the concerns expressed by the legislature. The goal is to optimize resource allocation and reduce pet overpopulation.
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Assemblymember Maienschein and Social Compassion in Legislation introduce the P.E.T.S. Act

January 30, 2024
The bill will reinstate a voluntary tax check-off program that ran successfully for eight years and expired at the end of 2023. The program allows Californians to direct a portion of their state tax refund to a program that offers grants for low- and no-cost spay and neuter services.
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