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CS/CS/HB 1077: Service Animals

GENERAL BILL by Civil Justice Subcommittee ; Health and Human Services Access Subcommittee ; Kriseman ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Baxley ; Campbell ; Jenne ; Julien ; Pafford ; Randolph ; Rooney

Service Animals; Cites act as "Dawson and David Caras Act"; provides rights for individual accompanied by service animal; provides that documentation that service animal is trained is not precondition for providing certain services to individual accompanied by service animal; provides restrictions for public accommodation imposing deposit or surcharge; provides for liability of individual accompanied by or trainer of service animal; provides responsibility for supervision of service animal; provides conditions for exclusion or removal of service animal from public accommodation; provides penalty for denying or interfering with right to public accommodation; provides for rights to housing accommodations for owner of service animal; provides limitations; provides rights of housing to owner or trainer of service animal; provides rights to trainer of service animals; provides penalty for misrepresentation as trainer.

Effective Date: 7/1/2012
Last Action: 3/9/2012 House - Died on Calendar
Bill Text: PDF



Bill History

Date Chamber Action
12/19/2011 House • Filed
1/9/2012 House • Referred to Health and Human Services Access Subcommittee; Civil Justice Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee -HJ 105
1/10/2012 House • Introduced -HJ 105
1/20/2012 House • On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Access Subcommittee, 01/24/12, 2:00 pm, Webster Hall
1/24/2012 House • CS by Health and Human Services Access Subcommittee; YEAS 15 NAYS 0 -HJ 299
1/26/2012 House • Pending review of CS under Rule 7.19(c)
1/27/2012 House • Now in Civil Justice Subcommittee -HJ 297
• On Committee agenda-- Civil Justice Subcommittee, 01/31/12, 8:00 am, 404 HOB
• CS by Health and Human Services Access Subcommittee read 1st time -HJ 290
1/31/2012 House • CS/CS by Civil Justice Subcommittee; YEAS 13 NAYS 0 -HJ 455
2/1/2012 House • Pending review of CS under Rule 7.19(c)
2/2/2012 House • Now in Health and Human Services Committee -HJ 451
• CS/CS by Civil Justice Subcommittee read 1st time -HJ 448
2/3/2012 House • On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Committee, 02/07/12, 1:30 pm, 404 HOB
2/7/2012 House • Favorable by- Health and Human Services Committee; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 -HJ 548
• Placed on Calendar -HJ 548
3/9/2012 House • Died on Calendar