Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee, Judiciary Committee
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Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act or the PACT Act 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.
Animal protection and human-animal relationshipsCrimes against animals and natural resourcesDigital mediaInternet and video servicesInternet, web applications, social mediaPhotography and imagingTelevision and film
To revise section 48 of title 18, United States Code, and for other purposes.
USA115th CongressHR-1494| House
| Updated: 3/21/2017
Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act or the PACT Act 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.
Animal protection and human-animal relationshipsCrimes against animals and natural resourcesDigital mediaInternet and video servicesInternet, web applications, social mediaPhotography and imagingTelevision and film