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To amend the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit dog fighting ventures. 8/2/2007--Introduced. Federal Dog Protection Act - Amends the Animal Welfare Act to make it unlawful to knowingly: (1) sponsor or exhibit an animal in, or knowingly attend, a dog fighting venture; (2) sell, buy, possess, train, transport, deliver, or receive for purposes of transportation any dog or other animal for the purpose of having the dog or other animal, or offspring of the dog or other animal, participate in a dog fighting venture; or (3) use the U.S. mail service or any instrumentality of interstate commerce for commercial speech that promotes or furthers such prohibited actions.Makes costs incurred for the care of animals seized and forfeited recoverable from the owner (currently recoverable costs are limited to those incurred by the United States).Allows animal control agencies, humane societies, or societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals to commence a civil suit to enjoin [...]

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  • 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.
  • 08/02/2007 - 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.
  • 08/02/2007 - Referred to House Agriculture
  • 08/02/2007 - Referred to House Judiciary
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H.R.3327 Introduced in House08/31/2007