PA House bill 1398

[sgath92]

Wrong.....HB1398 is set up to regulate and tighten laws on "wild mammals" only....the Game Comm. of PA has no territory on reptiles....I spent time on the phone today with the liaison for the Game Comm. and he told me that they met with "Pet Smart" when this bill was still in its first step to let them know it would not affect they way they operate their business....

Reptiles are controlled by the Fish and Boat Comm. of PA and they are the only ones that can change laws to regulate ownership. Now when I spoke to her, the liaison for Fish and Boat, there are House Bills that are in the process of going to Step 1 to regulate the ownership of Venomous and Crocs/alligators but not regular reptiles such as boids/pythons and lizards.
It takes a Bill 7 steps to pass into law and there are quite a few that have been written up but never even made it to Step 1.
Travis
Lair of Dragons

Sen Costa disagrees with you. My reason for contacting him to begin with, was to point out that the [possibly intentionally] vague wording of the bill would amount to a ban on all non-native reptiles after 2013.

His response was what I posted to this thread: That exotic animals are dangerous, and that he supports this proposed law.

He did not say "This won't effect reptiles" instead he said "We need to ban exotics"

I cannot say whether this bill could ban reptiles, amphibians, and fish that aren't native to PA but the state senators & representatives in favor of the bill certainly believe & intend that it will.

USARK has been saying on facebook that the wording of this bill has the potential to be as bad as I am saying/worrying about here. It will/can be a backdoor route to banning just about everything.