2SSB 5106 -
By Senator Fairley
ADOPTED 02/15/2008
Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:
"NEW SECTION. Sec. 1 A new section is added to chapter 38.52 RCW
to read as follows:
(1) The Washington state military department's emergency management
division, in cooperation with county and local governments, shall
prepare, as part of the state comprehensive emergency management plan,
animal emergency planning guidance for local jurisdictions that
provides for the evacuation, transportation, and temporary sheltering
of pets and service animals as defined in RCW 70.84.021 during a major
disaster or an emergency.
(2) The division, in developing the guidance, shall consider:
(a) Allowing owners of service animals to be evacuated,
transported, and sheltered with or near their service animals;
(b) Establishing a sufficient number of evacuation shelters
equipped to temporarily shelter pets and service animals in close
proximity to a human sheltering facility;
(c) Allowing owners and their pets to be evacuated together,
whenever possible, provided that human life is not endangered;
(d) Transporting pets or service animals, in cages or carriers that
safely and securely confine the animals, in an impending major disaster
or emergency provided that such transportation does not endanger human
life;
(e) Recommending that animal shelters, humane societies, veterinary
offices, boarding kennels, breeders, grooming facilities, animal
testing facilities, and any other entity that normally houses pets or
service animals create evacuation plans for the animals housed at their
facilities;
(f) Recommending guidance for holding periods for pets or service
animals that are sheltered during a major disaster or an emergency; and
(g) Encouraging local jurisdictions to create an educational
campaign for owners of pets or service animals that will encourage
owners to plan for and incorporate their animals in the owners'
personal plans in the event of a major disaster or an emergency.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2 The code reviser shall alphabetize and
renumber the definitions in RCW 38.52.010."
2SSB 5106 -
By Senator Fairley
ADOPTED 02/15/2008
On page 1, line 1 of the title, after "operations;" strike the remainder of the title and insert "adding a new section to chapter 38.52 RCW; and creating a new section."
EFFECT: Removes the Department of Agriculture from the requirements of the bill and clarifies that the state Military Department must provide planning guidance and not operations guidance.