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To amend the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit dog fighting ventures.
7/27/2007--Introduced. Dog Fighting Prohibition Act - Amends the Animal Welfare Act to make it unlawful to: (1) knowingly sponsor or exhibit an animal in, or knowingly attend, a dog fighting venture; and (2) knowingly sell, buy, possess, train, transport, deliver, or receive for purposes of transportation any dog or other animal for the purposes of having the dog, animal, or offspring of the dog or other animal participate in a dog fighting venture. Provides for imprisonment for up to five years for violations.
Latest Actions
- 04/25/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
- 09/10/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
- 07/27/2007 - Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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.
- 07/27/2007 - Referred to House Agriculture
- 07/27/2007 - Referred to House Judiciary
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