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2023–2024 Regular Session

Senate Bill 746

An Act amending the act of December 7, 1982 (P.L.784, No.225), known as the Dog Law, in short title and definitions, further providing for definitions; in licenses, tags and kennels, further providing for issuance of dog licenses, compensation, proof required, deposit of funds, records, license sales, rules and regulations, failure to comply, unlawful acts and penalty, for applications for dog licenses, fees and penalties, for kennels, for requirements for kennels, for revocation or refusal of kennel licenses, for dogs temporarily in the Commonwealth and for health certificates for importation; in offenses of dogs, further providing for dog bites and detentions and isolation of dogs; in dangerous dogs, further providing for court proceedings, certificate of registration and disposition, for requirements, for public safety and penalties and for construction of article; in injury to dogs, further providing for selling, bartering or trading dogs; in enforcement and penalties, further providing for enforcement of this act by the secretary and provisions for inspections and for enforcement and penalties; in sterilization of dogs and cats, further providing for definitions; and imposing penalties.

Became law as Act 18 of 2023, signed October 23, 2023, 145 days after it was filed.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

Its course

May 31 to October 23, 2023, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action26 actions on 11 days

In the SenateMay 31 to Jun 2020 days

Agriculture & Rural AffairsMay 31 to Jun 66 days

AppropriationsJun 7 to Jun 1912 days

In the House of RepresentativesJun 20 to Oct 18120 days

Agriculture & Rural AffairsJun 21 to Jun 221 day

AppropriationsJun 27 to Oct 18113 days

Waiting to be sentOct 18 to Oct 235 days

With the GovernorOct 23 to Oct 230 days

Votes

Yeas to nays, as the General Assembly recorded them. Committee votes are set in.

  • Senate, amendment47–3

    Jun 19

  • Senate, third reading43–7

    Passed · Jun 20

  • House of Representatives, third reading143–60

    Passed · Oct 18

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • Senate committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Jun 6

  • Senate floor amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Jun 19

Text

Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

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What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

In the Senate May 31 – Jun 20

  1. Sent to AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS
  2. AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS recommended it as amended
  3. Read a second time
  4. Sent to APPROPRIATIONS
  5. APPROPRIATIONS recommended it
  6. Amended on the floor
  7. Passed the Senate, 43 to 7

In the House of Representatives Jun 21 – Oct 18

  1. Arrived in the House of Representatives
  2. Sent to AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS
  3. AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS recommended it
  4. Read a second time
  5. Sent to APPROPRIATIONS
  6. APPROPRIATIONS recommended it
  7. Passed the House of Representatives, 143 to 60

To the Governor Oct 23

  1. Signed in the Senate
  2. Signed in the House of Representatives
  3. Sent to the Governor
  4. Signed by the Governor
  5. Became Act 18 of 2023
All 26 actions, as published