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SB750Introduced in the Senate

Local Government - Trap-Neuter-Return Policies for Community Cats - Requirements and Restrictions (Ash's Law)

IntroducedSenate Education, Energy, and the Environment

Introduced by Karen Lewis Young, District 3

What does this bill do?

Plain-English breakdown

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Official description

Establishing that the prohibition against abandoning an animal does not apply to a person who is providing care to a community cat under a certain trap-neuter-return policy; establishing that a local law that establishes a trap-neuter-return policy is subject to certain requirements and restrictions; and providing that the Act supersedes and preempts any law, ordinance, policy, or regulation of any local government body and any policy or rule of any person or corporation that prohibits or restricts the practice of trap-neuter-return.

Where it stands

Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.

February 10, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

No recorded vote is available for this bill yet.

Bill history

  1. First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment

  2. Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.

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