relative to pet transfers.

The bill's title was changed from 'SB 442 - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE' to 'SB 442 - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES,' reflecting that the bill completed its legislative process and was adopted by both chambers.

New section requires that no animal shelter may transfer a dog, cat, or ferret received from outside the state without an official certificate of transfer and until quarantine requirements in RSA 437:8, IV have been met.

The term 'health certificate' is replaced with 'certificate of transfer' in the new shelter requirement, aligning terminology with the bill's broader renaming effort.

All substantive requirements about health certificates, vaccination mandates, microchip scanning, owner contact timelines (72 hours), quarantine rules, and shelter exemptions were entirely removed from the bill.

The title of RSA 437:8 was changed from 'Health Certificates' to 'Official Certificates of Transfer for Dogs, Cats, and Ferrets,' and the term 'Certificates of transfer' in RSA 437:8-b, V was updated to 'Official certificates of transfer.'

A new provision requires that official certificates of transfer be removed from the animal records database after 4 years.

The effective date changed from a complex trigger (2 years after the commissioner certifies an animal records database is ready) to a simple 60 days after passage.