US Congress House Bill 1406 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 176-70-1)
Status: Introduced on March 7 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-03-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Dog and Cat Meat Trade Prohibition Act of 2017 This bill amends the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit people from knowingly slaughtering a dog or cat for human consumption. In addition, the bill prohibits people from knowingly transporting, possessing, buying, selling, or donating: (1) a dog or cat to be slaughtered for human consumption, or (2) dog or cat parts for human consumption. The bill subjects a violator to imprisonment for up to a year, a fine, or both. The bill applies to conduct in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States.

Dog and Cat Meat Trade Prohibition Act of 2017

Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Vern Buchanan [R-FL]	Rep. David Trott [R-MI]	Rep. Brendan Boyle [D-PA]
Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Thomas MacArthur [R-NJ]	Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]
Rep. Darren Soto [D-FL]	Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D-MO]	Rep. Val Demings [D-FL]	Rep. Mike Quigley [D-IL]
Rep. Patrick Meehan [R-PA]	Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]	Rep. Steve Chabot [R-OH]	Rep. Matt Gaetz [R-FL]
Rep. Gregory Meeks [D-NY]	Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]	Rep. Robert Brady [D-PA]	Rep. Jackie Speier [D-CA]
Rep. Thomas Suozzi [D-NY]	Rep. Tony Cardenas [D-CA]	Rep. Claudia Tenney [R-NY]	Rep. Dwight Evans [D-PA]
Rep. Norma Torres [D-CA]	Rep. Tom O'Halleran [D-AZ]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Luis Gutierrez [D-IL]
Rep. Nydia Velazquez [D-NY]	Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA]	Rep. John Yarmuth [D-KY]	Rep. Linda Sanchez [D-CA]
Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]	Rep. William Keating [D-MA]	Rep. Pramila Jayapal [D-WA]	Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi [D-IL]
Sen. Ruben Gallego [D-AZ]	Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR]	Rep. Brad Sherman [D-CA]	Rep. Frank LoBiondo [R-NJ]
Sen. Jacky Rosen [D-NV]	Rep. Adriano Espaillat [D-NY]	Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL]	Rep. Carol Shea-Porter [D-NH]
Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]	Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]	Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA]	Rep. Chris Collins [R-NY]
Rep. John Rutherford [R-FL]	Rep. Salud Carbajal [D-CA]	Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]	Sen. Adam Schiff [D-CA]
Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick [R-PA]	Rep. Dina Titus [D-NV]	Rep. Mike Coffman [R-CO]
Rep. Mike Bishop [R-MI]	Rep. Elizabeth Esty [D-CT]	Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]
Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]	Rep. C.A. Ruppersberger [D-MD]
Rep. Dennis Ross [R-FL]	Rep. Doug LaMalfa [R-CA]	Rep. Bradley Schneider [D-IL]	Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]
Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]	Rep. Daniel Donovan [R-NY]	Rep. Seth Moulton [D-MA]
Rep. Ruben Kihuen [D-NV]	Rep. Mark DeSaulnier [D-CA]	Rep. Scott Peters [D-CA]	Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]
Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. Gene Green [D-TX]	Rep. Joe Courtney [D-CT]	Rep. Kevin Yoder [R-KS]
Rep. Ryan Costello [R-PA]	Rep. Brian Higgins [D-NY]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]
Rep. Sean Maloney [D-NY]	Rep. Daniel Lipinski [D-IL]	Rep. Niki Tsongas [D-MA]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]
Sen. Lisa Rochester [D-DE]	Rep. Leonard Lance [R-NJ]	Rep. Albio Sires [D-NJ]	Rep. Sander Levin [D-MI]
Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]	Rep. Steve Stivers [R-OH]	Rep. Tom Marino [R-PA]	Rep. Raul Ruiz [D-CA]
Rep. Donald McEachin [D-VA]	Rep. Christopher Smith [R-NJ]	Rep. David Schweikert [R-AZ]	Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D-CA]
Rep. Jeff Denham [R-CA]	Rep. Rodney Davis [R-IL]	Rep. Ted Yoho [R-FL]	Rep. Mike D. Rogers [R-AL]
Rep. Trent Kelly [R-MS]	Rep. David Valadao [R-CA]	Rep. Don Bacon [R-NE]	Rep. Devin Nunes [R-CA]
Rep. Michael Simpson [R-ID]	Rep. Mark Amodei [R-NV]	Rep. John Faso [R-NY]	Rep. Carlos Curbelo [R-FL]
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [R-FL]	Sen. Roger Marshall [R-KS]	Rep. Rick Allen [R-GA]	Rep. Marcia Fudge [D-OH]
Rep. Austin Scott [R-GA]	Rep. Bruce Poliquin [R-ME]	Rep. Kathy Castor [D-FL]	Rep. Stephen Lynch [D-MA]
Rep. John Katko [R-NY]	Rep. Tim Murphy [R-PA]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]	Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D-NY]
Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Stephanie Murphy [D-FL]	Rep. Fred Upton [R-MI]	Rep. Colleen Hanabusa [D-HI]
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard [D-HI]	Rep. Donald Norcross [D-NJ]	Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]	Rep. Lois Frankel [D-FL]
Rep. David Joyce [R-OH]	Rep. Michael Doyle [D-PA]	Sen. Martha McSally [R-AZ]	Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]
Rep. Frank Pallone [D-NJ]	Rep. Michael Capuano [D-MA]	Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]
Rep. Grace Meng [D-NY]	Rep. Pete Aguilar [D-CA]	Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham [D-NM]	Rep. James Himes [D-CT]
Rep. Susan Davis [D-CA]	Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen [R-NJ]	Rep. Barbara Comstock [R-VA]	Rep. Kathleen Rice [D-NY]
Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]	Rep. Vicente Gonzalez [D-TX]	Rep. Joyce Beatty [D-OH]
Rep. Charlie Crist [D-FL]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Nita Lowey [D-NY]	Rep. Josh Gottheimer [D-NJ]
Rep. Don Beyer [D-VA]	Rep. Julia Brownley [D-CA]	Rep. Lee Zeldin [R-NY]	Rep. Theodore Deutch [D-FL]
Rep. Eddie Johnson [D-TX]	Rep. Hakeem Jeffries [D-NY]	Rep. Adam Smith [D-WA]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]
Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D-OH]	Rep. Ro Khanna [D-CA]	Rep. Denny Heck [D-WA]	Rep. Katherine Clark [D-MA]
Rep. Lacy Clay [D-MO]	Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [I-AZ]	Rep. Lloyd Doggett [D-TX]	Rep. Sanford Bishop [D-GA]
Rep. Edward Royce [R-CA]	Rep. Lou Barletta [R-PA]	Rep. John Sarbanes [D-MD]	Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA]
Rep. Juan Vargas [D-CA]	Rep. Erik Paulsen [R-MN]	Rep. Bill Pascrell [D-NJ]	Rep. Richard Nolan [D-MN]
Rep. John Delaney [D-MD]	Rep. Anthony Brown [D-MD]	Rep. David Roe [R-TN]	Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]
Rep. Jimmy Panetta [D-CA]	Rep. Jimmy Gomez [D-CA]	Rep. Bonnie Coleman [D-NJ]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]
Rep. Brenda Lawrence [D-MI]	Rep. Alma Adams [D-NC]	Rep. Beto O'Rourke [D-TX]	Rep. David Price [D-NC]
Rep. Nanette Barragan [D-CA]	Rep. Joseph Crowley [D-NY]	Rep. David Reichert [R-WA]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]
Rep. Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon [R-PR]	Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]	Rep. Cheri Bustos [D-IL]	Sen. Ben Lujan [D-NM]
Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D-CT]	Rep. Peter King [R-NY]	Rep. Danny Davis [D-IL]	Rep. Richard Neal [D-MA]
Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]	Rep. Stacey Plaskett [D-VI]	Rep. Frederica Wilson [D-FL]	Rep. Francis Rooney [R-FL]
Rep. Robert Scott [D-VA]	Rep. Peter Roskam [R-IL]	Rep. John Larson [D-CT]	Rep. Bill Foster [D-IL]
Rep. Jim Costa [D-CA]	Rep. Debbie Dingell [D-MI]	Rep. Bill Posey [R-FL]	Rep. Kurt Schrader [D-OR]
Rep. Ralph Abraham [R-LA]	Rep. James Renacci [R-OH]	Rep. Diana DeGette [D-CO]	Rep. Stephen Knight [R-CA]
Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]	Rep. Jerry McNerney [D-CA]	Rep. Ami Bera [D-CA]	Rep. David Young [R-IA]
Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]	Rep. Luis Correa [D-CA]	Rep. Karen Bass [D-CA]	Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler [R-WA]
Rep. Joseph Kennedy [D-MA]	Rep. Gregorio Sablan [D-MP]	Rep. Gus Bilirakis [R-FL]	Rep. Kenny Marchant [R-TX]
Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]	Rep. Al Lawson [D-FL]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]
Rep. Karen Handel [R-GA]	Rep. Jason Lewis [R-MN]	Rep. Timothy Walz [D-MN]	Rep. Ed Perlmutter [D-CO]
Rep. Bill Johnson [R-OH]	Rep. Rick Larsen [D-WA]	Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart [R-FL]	Rep. Daniel Kildee [D-MI]
Rep. Elijah Cummings [D-MD]	Rep. John Garamendi [D-CA]	Rep. Conor Lamb [D-PA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-23	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
2017-03-07	House	Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
2017-03-07	House	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E280)
2017-03-07	House	Introduced in House

HB4425 (Related) 2017-11-16 - Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
HB2 (Related) 2018-12-20 - Became Public Law No: 115-334.
HR891 (Similar To) 2018-05-16 - Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
HR1176 (Similar To) 2018-12-12 - Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1406/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr1406/BILLS-115hr1406ih.pdf