US Congress Senate Bill 479 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 39-7-3)
Status: Introduced on February 13 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-13 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Revises and expands criminal provisions with respect to animal crushing. It retains existing criminal offenses that prohibit knowingly creating or distributing an animal crush video using interstate commerce. The bill also adds a new provision to criminalize an intentional act of animal crushing. A violator is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to seven years, or both. It provides additional exceptions for conduct, or a video of conduct, including conduct that is (1) medical or scientific research, (2) necessary to protect the life or property of a person, (3) performed as part of euthanizing an animal, or (4) unintentional.

PACT Act Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act

Sen. Pat Toomey [R-PA]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]
Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]	Sen. Margaret Hassan [D-NH]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]
Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]	Sen. Kamala Harris [D-CA]	Sen. Rob Portman [R-OH]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]
Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]	Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]	Sen. Martha McSally [R-AZ]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]	Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]
Sen. Mark Warner [D-VA]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [I-AZ]
Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Angus King [I-ME]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]
Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Richard Burr [R-NC]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Jacky Rosen [D-NV]
Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]	Sen. Thomas Carper [D-DE]	Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]
Sen. Pat Roberts [R-KS]	Sen. Rick Scott [R-FL]	Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Sen. Doug Jones [D-AL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-13	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

HB724 (Same As) 2019-11-25 - Became Public Law No: 116-72. (TXT | PDF)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/479/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s479/BILLS-116s479is.pdf