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By DEL. ANDY GUEST
R-31at
More than 1,800 bills and resolutions had been filed by Tuesday’s 5 p.m. deadline and while many look to be new ideas on the horizon, some are old ideas back for another go ’round. However, for some, even a new year or a new committee referral is not enough to disguise an unenforceable law.
Take cats for instance. Delegates Hardaway Marks and( Glenn McClanan each are pushing cat bills before 1 the House Agriculture Committee, even though the Courts of Justice Committee killed similar measures two years ago.
Delegate Marks would like every cat in Virginia vaccinated for rabies arid Mr. McClanan would like to endow every cat and its owner with all the protective personal property rights currently accorded to dogs and their owners. On the surface, these bills may address practical problems in some urban localities, but in others these proposed mandates are not only impractical, but virtually unenforceable. t
For example, at last count there are reported to be approximately one million cats living in the Commonwealth and I’d venture to say that very few are warming the hearth in the homes of caring cat owners. Last year in Virginia, there were approximately 100 reported cases of people who had been bitten by cats suspected of having rabies. The average cost for a full series of rabies shots runs about $500. If each
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