Linda B. Rosenthal

And we were thrilled with that, but we still needed a state bill as well to go along with the city bill.

Linda Rosenthal, who, uh, has been like a, an animal advocate since she started in the New York-- in, in, uh, in Albany.

Um, so she introduces a bill that goes a bit further than the city bill.

So the, the state bill says if you're gonna have a bodega cat, you have to have them spayed, you have to have them neutered.

And she's got a, enough background and institutional knowledge to have a really valuable perspective.

Megan's over two decades in policy began with working for the New York State Assembly's Linda Rosenthal and for US Senator Olympia Snowe.

Later, she was director for policy and electricity markets at SolarCity, which became Tesla.

In the last 10 years, as executive vice president for government and regulatory affairs with Sunnova Energy International, her focus was distributed energy resources, or DER, and she helped develop the Department of Energy's Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund.

Good afternoon, everyone.

I'm Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal, and I represent the 67th Assembly District, which includes the Upper West Side and parts of Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan.

Over the years, I've worked with so many of you to pass dozens of animal protection laws in New York State, and I applaud all of you who are marching to abolish animal testing today and over the next two weeks.

In 2016, we worked together to pass my law requiring that beagles or any other dog or cat can be placed up for adoption to a loving home when their time in a research facility is over.