Help protect Texas’ pets and assistance animals from domestic violence by supporting House Bill 853
American Humane is a national organization dedicated to protecting both children and animals and they are currently driving support for a recently introduced House Bill to protect companion animals in situations of domestic violence. On behalf of everyone who has been a victim of domestic violence or who has had to choose between their pet’s life and their own, we urge Texans to get behind this bill too!
Here’s some background on the bill from American Humane:
Each year throughout Texas, countless domestic violence victims risk their lives to protect their defenseless animals from harm. Research has shown that up to 48 percent of battered women remain in abusive homes out of concern for leaving their pets behind.
Children who grow up in an environment of animal abuse live in constant fear that a beloved family member will be harmed. Children often intervene to protect their mothers and pets from being battered, and some may even allow themselves to be victimized to save their pets from being harmed or killed.
To address this issue directly, Reps. Jodie Laubenberg, Ciro D. Rodriguez and Roland Gutierrez have introduced House Bill 853.
The goal of this bill is to stop abusers from harming, interfering with or threatening to harm pets and assistance animals by encouraging judges to include animals in domestic violence protective orders. A protective order is a legal order issued by a court that requires one person to stop harming, stay away from and/or cease contact with another person or, in the case of this bill, that person's pets as well.
We owe it to the countless domestic violence survivors throughout Texas to get HB 853 passed.
HB 853 is currently in the House Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence. Please ask Committee Chair Todd Hunter to schedule HB 853 for a hearing and to vote for its passage.
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