to address the ones you listed: It's already illegal, at least in Texas, to release an animal back into the wild unless you are a licensed rehabber. It was the same in Colorado and is the same in New Mexico and California. I don't know about other states in the union for sure, just because I've never lived there or had close family that lived there. So that may be a moot point. At least here the wording for the law applies to any wild animal (defined as non domestic), regardless of natural range and weather or not it was captive bred. I.E even though I have some native animals (red ear sliders, speckled kings), it would be as much a violation of the law to release them as it would be to release a burmese python--or for that matter a raccoon or armadillo or lion. That is true if they're CB, LTC or WC.

As such it doesn't warrant a new law because there are ALREADY laws on the books regarding that.

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