Pennsylvania Dog Kennel Bill Passes with Sportsmen Protections Included
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Pennsylvania Dog Kennel Bill Passes with Sportsmen Protections Included





Last week, the Pennsylvania legislature passed House Bill 2525, the Dog Kennel bill with all major changes requested by the US Sportsmen’s Alliance’s Sporting Dog Defense Coalition (SDDC). The bill was signed by Governor Ed Rendell on October 10.
While the legislation had stalled for awhile due to a variety of issues, it eventually made it through all hurdles, never picking up any additional alterations that could represent problems for sportsmen. In fact, the Senate even improved on certain provisions from the version that had cleared the House.

The USSA wants to thank all groups that joined in the massive effort to clean up HB 2525: Masters of Foxhound’s Association of America, Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen Clubs, Northeast Beagle Gun Dog Federation, American Brittany Club, and many local hunts clubs and other organizations. Without their efforts, the bill would have allowed the combining of criminal and civil fines for small technical violations and put many sporting dog breeders out of business.

Common sense changes the SDDC coalition obtained include: modifications on originally proposed language regarding search and seizure, criminal and civil fines, search warrants and probable cause. Those changes also kept the ability to set license fees with the legislature, thus preventing bureaucrats from hiking them without a public airing.

By HB 2525 passing now, and in a form that preserves the rights of those who hunt with dogs, this issue is unlikely to reemerge in the next legislative cycle.
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