A cou­ple of good things going on. One local (for Cen­tral Tex­ans) and one not local, but could have future impact here and across the county.

  • In Texas, the Killeen City Coun­cil will meet July 5 to dis­cuss adopt­ing a 3-year rabies ordi­nance. (As opposed to 1-year.)
  • In the Delaware Sen­ate a bill has been intro­duced, which would cre­ate a penalty for vets who vac­ci­nate in excess of rec­om­mended dosages and/or frequencies.

More infor­ma­tion below, cross-posted with per­mis­sion of the Rabies Chal­lenge Fund.

TEXAS: Killeen
City Coun­cil will hold a work­shop July 5 to dis­cuss adopt­ing a 3-year rabies ordi­nance for the city. They will vote July 12.

What You Can Do to Help: Con­tact the City Coun­cil mem­bers to vote in favor:

Scott Cosper – scosper@ci.killeen.tx.us (254) 526‑2167
Larry Cole – lcole@ci.killeen.tx.us (254) 289‑7012
Billy Work­man – bworkman@ci.killeen.tx.us (254) 338‑8337
Kenny Wells – kwells@ci.killeen.tx.us (254) 681‑4977
Juan Rivera – jrivera@ci.killeen.tx.us (254) 338‑4304
Terry Clark – tclark@ci.killeen.tx.us (254) 466‑9082

DELAWARE
Sen­a­tor Karen E. Peter­son has filed SB 147 http://legis.delaware.gov/lis/lis146.nsf/vwlegislation/SB+147 “This Bill cre­ates a dis­ci­pli­nary action if a vet­eri­nar­ian gives vac­cines in excess of the rec­om­mended dosages and/or fre­quen­cies.”  The bill has been assigned to the Sen­ate Agri­cul­ture Committee.

What You Can Do to Help: Con­tact Sen­ate Agri­cul­ture Com­mit­tee Chair, George Bunting George.Bunting@state.de.us (302) 744‑4286 and the mem­bers below and ask them to vote that SB 147 “OUGHT TO PASS.”

Chair George Bunting – George.Bunting@state.de.us (302) 744‑4286
Joseph W. Booth – Joseph.Booth@state.de.us (302) 744‑4117
Bruce C. Ennis – bruce.ennis@state.de.us (302) 744‑4310
F. Gary Simp­son – gsimpson@udel.edu (302) 744‑4134
Robert L. Ven­ables – Robert.Venables@state.de.us (302) 744‑4298

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