US Congress Senate Bill 654 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-4-1)
Status: Engrossed on December 15 2017 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-12-15 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

PACT Act Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the federal criminal code to revise and expand 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. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]
Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Richard Burr [R-NC]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]
Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Joe Donnelly [D-IN]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Rob Portman [R-OH]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]
Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]
Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]
Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Margaret Hassan [D-NH]
Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Kamala Harris [D-CA]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]
Sen. Mark Warner [D-VA]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]
Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-12-15	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2017-12-15	House	Received in the House.
2017-12-14	Senate	Message on Senate action sent to the House.
2017-12-14	Senate	Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S8049)
2017-12-14	Senate	Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8049)
2017-03-15	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

HB1494 (Same As) 2017-03-21 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/654/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s654/BILLS-115s654is.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s654/BILLS-115s654es.pdf