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Testimony supports bill to require local plans to identify shelters that can accommodate pets during disasters
Summary
Supporters — animal welfare organizations, veterinarians and emergency-management groups — told the Senate committee House Bill 1201 would increase evacuation compliance and reduce risk to first responders by requiring local emergency plans to identify shelters that can accommodate companion animals.
House Bill 1201 would require cities, towns and counties that prepare local comprehensive emergency management plans to address co‑sheltering of companion animals and to identify emergency shelters able to accommodate people with pets.
Committee staff said the bill directs jurisdictions to include companion-animal sheltering options in plan updates and requires certain companion-animal emergency preparedness information to be posted on local government websites. Commerce…
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