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Discusses new laws (public acts and special acts) significantly affecting animals and agriculture enacted and adopted during the 2019 regular session.

Discusses new laws (public acts) and a resolution affecting animals and agriculture enacted and adopted during the 2018 regular session.

Discusses new laws (public acts) affecting animals and agriculture enacted during the 2017 regular session.

Summarizes court procedure for an animal cruelty case.

Discusses new laws (public acts) affecting agriculture and animals enacted during the 2016 regular legislative session.

Discusses Connecticut's primary animal cruelty statute (CGS § 53-247) and the outcome of offenses brought under it from 2005 through October 26, 2015. 2015. Updates OLR research report 2013-R-0148.

Discusses highlights of new laws (public acts) affecting animals and agriculture enacted during the 2015 legislative session.

Summarizes new laws affecting agriculture enacted during the 2014 regular session.

Answers a series of questions related to pet shops and imported animals.

Discusses Connecticut's primary animal cruelty statute (CGS 53-247) and the outcome of offenses brought under it from 2002 to 2012. Updates OLR research report 2011-R-0405.

Discusses whether the Department of Agriculture or the Department of Environmental Protection has changed its position on Bengal cats since the General Assembly prohibited the importation of such cats in 1996.

Discusses whether the state has any authority over the testing of animals, and if so, which agency is responsible.

Discusses the Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) position on legalizing Bengal cats, if DEP has information on the number of these cats in Connecticut, and what the Department of Agriculture's (DOA) position is on the rabies vaccine for these cats.

Discusses how veterinarians dispose of abandoned animals.

Discusses proposal regarding possible amendments to CGS 22-358(c), requiring animal control officers to quarantine any animal that has bitten or attacked a person outside of the owner's home.