>From:    Judie Carr Bruno <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: California
>Can someone bring me up to speed on the ferret laws in Calif.
 
There is currently a bill in the state legislature AB363 which, if approved,
would allow the licensing of ferrets for a period of time to fund a study to
see if legalizing ferrets has any negative effect.  Not the greatest bill,
but we had to make some sacrafices in order to get it as far as we did in
the legislature.
 
AB363 is currently stalled in the Senate Appropriations Committee (it was
placed in the Suspense File by the chair, Senator Patrick Johnston [he's
anti-ferret legalization]).  The legislature is now in recess, so the bill
won't be heard until January 1998.  But AB 363 won't be taken off of
Suspense unless one or some of the Senators on the committee request it to
be heard (in defiance of the chair).  So what is needed is pressure from the
constituants in the districts of these Committee members.
 
You said you are in San Diego, so there is a chance you are in one of those
Senators' districts.  You should find out if you are in Sanator Dede
Alpert's district or Senator David Kelley's district.  If you are, you need
to contact and encourage your senator to remove AB363 from the Suspense
File.  Polite letters, faxes, or e-mails are needed.  If you can arrange a
meeting, all the better.  You can find all of this info and the legalization
battle over the last couple of years on our website, Californians For Ferret
Legalization= http://www.ferretnews.org
 
You can write to us at [log in to unmask] if you have any other questions
that our website doesn't answer.
 
Hope that helps!
 
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[Posted in FML issue 2128]