"n House Bill 428 by Leger would allow a bond of $100 per day per animal seized in connection with a cruelty charge."

I disagree with this. It doesn't say you have to be convicted.. it just wants you to pay if they seize the animals. SO .... if the local police seize all your snakes thinking that they are highly venomous cobras and you should have a 1 acre paddock for each cornsnake.. or maybe your neighbor didn't like your dogs because they know you also have snakes....

They seize your animals... they keep the animals during the whole investigation and then decide "Hey.. you aren't doing anything wrong!". Now you will owe the fees of $100 per day per animal for the entire time they held them.. even though you did nothing wrong.

Same for a cat or dog or python or horse. I have a friend who had officials seize her three rescued horses that she had had only three weeks, because they were skinny! Of course they were skinny.. that's why she took them in. Despite the original pictures shown, the vet report she produced showing when she got them and how much they had already improved.. the official folks kept the horses for nearly a month before the slow wheels of justice alowed them to drop all investigation and return them. Imagine what her bill would be if she had to pay $100 per day per horse.

Rewording that bill so that only convicted animal abusers have to pay... things like that. I do think a amnesty is a good thing for turning in exotics.