HB-4355, As Passed Senate, December 14, 2016

SENATE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 4355

as amended December 14, 2016

     A bill to amend 1969 PA 287, entitled

"An act to regulate pet shops, animal control shelters, and animal

protection shelters; to establish uniform procedures and minimum

requirements for adoption of dogs, cats, and ferrets; and to

prescribe penalties and civil fines and to provide remedies,"

(MCL 287.331 to 287.340) by adding section 8b.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 8b. (1) Before allowing an individual to adopt an animal,

an animal control shelter or animal protection shelter <<may>>

conduct a search using ICHAT to determine whether that individual

has a prior criminal history for an animal abuse offense.

     (2) An animal control shelter or animal protection shelter

does not violate this act if the animal control shelter or animal

protection shelter searches for an individual on ICHAT <<allowed under>>

subsection (1) and the search fails to disclose that the

individual has a prior criminal history for an animal abuse

offense.

     (3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a pet shop that allows an

animal protection shelter to use pet shop resources, including, but

not limited to, the pet shop's premises, facilities, employees,

equipment, and advertising for pet adoptions, or to a pet shop that

works with an animal protection shelter but does not perform

adoptions except as an agent of the animal protection shelter. A

pet shop described in this subsection is not an animal protection

shelter and is not liable for any pet adoptions performed by an

animal protection shelter.

     (4) This section may be referred to as "Logan's law".

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

after the date it is enacted into law.