EGG-NEWS is indebted to Will Coggin of Consumer Freedom for a report on California Assembly Bill 554. The Bill entitled "Corporations for The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: Enforcement of Laws” was introduced on February 8th, 2023 and amended March 15th, 2023. The Bill authorizes an existing welfare entity to initiate a complaint and bring a civil action to obtain specific or injunctive relief to enforce laws relating to or affecting animals. Existing law authorizes the formation of nonprofit corporations for the purpose of preventing cruelty to animals.
The Bill would enable the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to protect the legal interests of livestock, not necessarily subject to cruelty or illegal harm, thereby extending the right to initiate litigation.