Paw Project Praises Maryland as Second No-Declaw State – April 21, 2022 – Today, cats of Maryland and the people who love them can celebrate because the bills to ban cruel cat declawing in Maryland have been signed into law by Governor Larry Hogan in a signing cermony in Annapolis this morning. The law becomes […]

MD Anti-Declaw Bill to go to Governor – April 4, 2022 – Maryland’s Anti-Declaw Bills, SB67 and HB22, have passed with strong bipartisan votes in both of Maryland’s legislative chambers. The bills would make nontherapeutic declawing illegal and were authored by State Senator Cheryl Kagan and State Delegate Lorig Charkoudian. Paw Project Director and Founder

MD Anti-Declaw Bill, SB67, Approved by Senate Floor Vote – February 21, 2022 – Maryland’s Anti-Declaw Bill, SB67, passed with a 32-14 bipartisan vote by the entire Maryland Senate. The bill would make nontherapeutic declawing illegal and was authored by State Senator Cheryl Kagan. Paw Project Director and Founder Dr. Jennifer Conrad provided testimony at

MD Anti-Declaw Bill, SB67, Approved by Committee – February 11, 2022 – MD Anti-Declaw Bill SB67 passed with a 10-1 bipartisan vote by the Maryland Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee. The bill would make nontherapeutic declawing illegal and was authored by State Senator Cheryl Kagan, who is also the Vice Chair on the

MN Landlord-Declaw Bill, SF 3076, Introduced – February 10, 2022 – Minnesota State Senator Scott Dibble has introduced SF 3076, which would prohibit landlords and property managers from requiring declawing of tenants’ cats as a condition of tenancy. The bill was patterned after the Paw Project-sponsored SB 1229, which was enacted in California in 2012.