From AP:
A comprehensive overhaul of Pennsylvania’s state dog law neared a final vote in the state House yesterday, a month after the shooting of dozens of dogs gave new momentum to the effort.
By comfortable margins, lawmakers rejected efforts to loosen the bill’s lighting and cage-material standards, to remove limits on how far off the ground dogs can be housed or to put a cap on potential civil penalties.
They also turned down attempts to restrict the use of search warrants, give out-of-town business owners the ability to delay inspections until their return or allow kennel owners more than six months to comply with the new provisions.
The legislation seemed headed for passage in the House, as most amendments were defeated by margins of 2-to-1 or more.
