A bill to amend the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit animal fighting in the United States territories.

United States115th CongressS-2971Senate
Updated: May 24, 2018

Summary

Parity in Animal Cruelty Enforcement Act or the PACE Act This bill amends the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit the sponsoring or exhibiting of animal fights involving live birds (such as cockfights). Under current law, the fights are unlawful only if they take place in states or U.S. territories or possessions that have banned it.

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HR-4202: To amend the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit animal fighting in United States territories.

Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.

  1. Introduced in Senate

  2. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

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