Proposed Florida bill bans dogs from sticking their heads out car windows

The law would also make it illegal to hold a dog in one’s lap while driving and require that any dog being transported be restrained. Photograph: adamkaz/Getty Images

A Florida lawmaker says she is open to changing a bill that got people barking because it would ban dogs from sticking their heads out of a car window.

Lauren Book, the Democratic leader in the Florida senate, proposed the restriction in a bill, SB 932, filed last week. The measure would have made it illegal to “allow a dog to extend its head or any other body part outside a motor vehicle window while the person is operating the motor vehicle on a public roadway”.