Pam Rock Act — Dangerous Dogs (CS for CS for SB 572)

• Requires mandatory confiscation, quarantine, impoundment, and holding of dogs under dangerous dog investigation that have killed a human or bitten a human scoring 5 or higher on the Dunbar bite scale; current law only authorizes but does not mandate confiscation
• Requires owners of dogs classified as dangerous to obtain liability insurance of at least $100,000, have the dog microchipped and spayed or neutered, register annually with the local animal control authority, and confine the dog in a proper enclosure
• Increases the penalty for an owner of a previously declared dangerous dog that attacks and causes severe injury or death to a human from a third-degree felony to a second-degree felony, and increases the penalty for owners of unclassified dogs causing severe injury or death (with known dangerous propensities) from a second-degree to a first-degree misdemeanor
• Doubles the civil fine for violations of the dangerous dog provisions from $500 to $1,000 per violation and creates a new first-degree misdemeanor for resisting or obstructing an animal control authority enforcing the law
• Mandates that animal control authorities humanely euthanize any surrendered dangerous dog that has killed or severely bitten a human, and requires shelters placing other dangerous dogs for adoption to disclose the dog's dangerous classification to potential adopters