SB3149 - Tennessee - Animal Control

Companion Bill HB2912. Animal Control - Requires non-livestock animals be held three business days before euthanasia except in emergency situations; applies non-livestock animal humane death act to all persons euthanizing non-livestock animals as agent of animal shelters; and clarifies that animal must be heavily sedated if intracardial injection method of euthanasia is used. - Amends TCA Title 44, Chapter 17. Fiscal Summary for SB3149 / *HB2912Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB3149 / *HB2912 Under present law, sodium pentobarbital and such other agents as may be specifically approved by the rules of the board of veterinary medicine are the only methods that may be used for euthanasia of non-livestock animals by public and private agencies, animal shelters,[...]

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