HR 1532 · 108th Congress 2003–2005, ended

Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act

Introduced Apr 1, 2003 Originated House Sponsor Roscoe G. Bartlett R-MD

Latest action · Apr 7, 2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedApr 1, 2003
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act - Amends the Animal Welfare Act to increase the imprisonment penalty for animal fighting violations from one year to two years. Makes it unlawful to sell, buy, transport, or deliver in interstate or foreign commerce a knife, gaff, or other sharp instrument used in a bird-fighting venture.

Revises enforcement provisions. Permits euthanasia for an animal in extreme pain.

Includes the Internet or any technology as interstate instrumentality.

Cosponsors 199

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 1, 2003 to Sep 8, 2004; 5 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy	Original	Apr 1, 2003
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer	Original	Apr 1, 2003
D-NY	Gary L. Ackerman	Original	Apr 1, 2003
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews	Original	Apr 1, 2003
R-CO	Thomas G. Tancredo	Original	Apr 1, 2003
R-AZ	Jim Kolbe		May 6, 2003
D-CA	Sam Farr		May 6, 2003
D-MA	Barney Frank		May 7, 2003
D-CA	Brad Sherman		May 7, 2003
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		May 7, 2003
R-GA	John Linder		May 7, 2003
R-GA	Johnny Isakson		May 7, 2003
R-WI	Mark Green		May 7, 2003
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		May 7, 2003
D-CA	Mike Thompson		May 7, 2003
D-NY	Steve Israel		May 7, 2003
D-NC	David E. Price		May 14, 2003
D-KS	Dennis Moore		May 14, 2003
D-CA	George Miller		May 14, 2003
R-NY	Jack Quinn		May 14, 2003
D-WA	Jay Inslee		May 14, 2003
D-WA	Jim McDermott		May 14, 2003
R-NJ	Jim Saxton		May 14, 2003
R-CT	Nancy L. Johnson		May 14, 2003
R-CT	Christopher Shays		May 19, 2003
R-IA	James A. Leach		May 19, 2003
D-PA	Joseph M. Hoeffel		May 19, 2003
R-NE	Lee Terry		May 19, 2003
D-NJ	Robert Menendez		May 19, 2003
D-OH	Stephanie Tubbs Jones		May 19, 2003
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		May 21, 2003
D-OR	Darlene Hooley		May 21, 2003
R-OH	David L. Hobson		May 21, 2003
D-MA	Edward J. Markey		May 21, 2003
R-FL	Ginny Brown-Waite		May 21, 2003
D-VA	James P. Moran		May 21, 2003
D-IL	Jerry F. Costello		May 21, 2003
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		May 21, 2003
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		May 21, 2003
D-WA	Adam Smith		Jun 2, 2003
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Jun 2, 2003
D-OR	David Wu		Jun 2, 2003
D-NY	Michael R. McNulty		Jun 2, 2003
D-OH	Sherrod Brown		Jun 2, 2003
D-MI	Carolyn C. Kilpatrick		Jun 4, 2003
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Jun 4, 2003
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman		Jun 4, 2003
D-CT	John B. Larson		Jun 4, 2003
D-MA	John W. Olver		Jun 4, 2003
D-MA	Bill Delahunt		Jun 10, 2003
D-TN	Harold E. Ford Jr.		Jun 10, 2003
D-FL	Peter Deutsch		Jun 10, 2003
D-FL	Robert Wexler		Jun 10, 2003
R-NY	Sherwood Boehlert		Jun 10, 2003
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Jun 10, 2003
D-IL	William O. Lipinski		Jun 10, 2003
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Jun 17, 2003
R-NY	Amo Houghton		Jun 17, 2003
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		Jun 17, 2003
D-OH	Dennis J. Kucinich		Jun 17, 2003
D-CA	Fortney Pete Stark		Jun 17, 2003
D-NJ	Rush Holt		Jun 17, 2003
D-CA	Bob Filner		Jun 26, 2003
D-CA	Jane Harman		Jun 26, 2003
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Jun 26, 2003
D-WA	Norman D. Dicks		Jun 26, 2003
D-ME	Thomas H. Allen		Jun 26, 2003
R-PA	Curt Weldon		Jul 14, 2003
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo		Jul 14, 2003
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Jul 14, 2003
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Jul 14, 2003
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Jul 14, 2003
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Jul 14, 2003
R-FL	John L. Mica		Jul 18, 2003
D-NY	Major R. Owens		Jul 18, 2003
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		Sep 3, 2003
R-FL	E. Clay Shaw Jr.		Sep 3, 2003
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Sep 3, 2003
D-NY	Anthony D. Weiner		Sep 4, 2003
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		Sep 4, 2003
D-CA	Ellen O. Tauscher		Sep 4, 2003
D-CA	Hilda L. Solis		Sep 4, 2003
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Sep 4, 2003
D-CA	Lois Capps		Sep 4, 2003
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Sep 4, 2003
R-NH	Charles F. Bass		Sep 10, 2003
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Sep 10, 2003
R-CA	Elton Gallegly		Sep 24, 2003
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell		Sep 24, 2003
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey		Sep 24, 2003
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Sep 24, 2003
D-CA	Tom Lantos		Sep 24, 2003
D-CA	Howard L. Berman		Sep 25, 2003
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Sep 25, 2003
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey		Sep 25, 2003
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Sep 25, 2003
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Oct 1, 2003
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee		Oct 1, 2003
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Oct 1, 2003
R-MN	Jim Ramstad		Oct 1, 2003
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		Oct 1, 2003
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Oct 1, 2003
D-TX	Martin Frost		Oct 1, 2003
R-NY	Sue W. Kelly		Oct 1, 2003
R-IL	Mark Kirk		Oct 8, 2003
D-CO	Mark Udall		Oct 8, 2003
I-VT	Bernard Sanders		Oct 21, 2003
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Oct 21, 2003
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Oct 21, 2003
R-IL	Jerry Weller		Oct 21, 2003
D-MA	John F. Tierney		Oct 21, 2003
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		Oct 21, 2003
D-NC	Brad Miller		Oct 29, 2003
R-PA	James C. Greenwood		Oct 29, 2003
D-CA	Calvin M. Dooley		Nov 4, 2003
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Nov 4, 2003
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud		Nov 4, 2003
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Nov 4, 2003
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Nov 5, 2003
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Nov 5, 2003
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Nov 5, 2003
R-AZ	Trent Franks		Nov 5, 2003
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Nov 6, 2003
R-KY	Ed Whitfield		Nov 6, 2003
R-FL	Michael Bilirakis		Nov 6, 2003
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman		Nov 6, 2003
R-NV	Jim Gibbons		Nov 10, 2003
D-MN	Martin Olav Sabo		Nov 10, 2003
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		Nov 10, 2003
D-MD	Benjamin L. Cardin		Nov 19, 2003
D-WA	Brian Baird		Nov 19, 2003
D-WI	Gerald D. Kleczka		Nov 19, 2003
R-NV	Jon C. Porter		Nov 19, 2003
R-IL	Judy Biggert		Nov 19, 2003
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Nov 19, 2003
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Nov 19, 2003
R-OH	Steve Chabot		Nov 19, 2003
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Nov 20, 2003
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Nov 20, 2003
R-MI	Fred Upton		Nov 20, 2003
D-IL	Lane Evans		Nov 20, 2003
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Nov 20, 2003
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Nov 20, 2003
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Nov 20, 2003
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Nov 21, 2003
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Nov 21, 2003
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Nov 21, 2003
D-MN	James L. Oberstar		Nov 21, 2003
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Nov 21, 2003
R-NY	John E. Sweeney		Nov 21, 2003
D-CA	Juanita Millender-McDonald		Nov 21, 2003
D-CA	Maxine Waters		Nov 21, 2003
R-NJ	Mike Ferguson		Nov 21, 2003
D-IL	Rahm Emanuel		Nov 21, 2003
D-CA	Robert T. Matsui		Nov 21, 2003
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		Nov 21, 2003
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Nov 25, 2003
D-TX	Chris Bell		Nov 25, 2003
D-CA	Dennis A. Cardoza		Nov 25, 2003
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Nov 25, 2003
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		Nov 25, 2003
D-GA	John Lewis		Nov 25, 2003
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Nov 25, 2003
D-MA	Martin T. Meehan		Nov 25, 2003
D-CA	Xavier Becerra		Nov 25, 2003
R-KY	Anne M. Northup		Dec 8, 2003
D-NC	Bob Etheridge		Dec 8, 2003
D-GA	Denise L. Majette		Dec 8, 2003
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Dec 8, 2003
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Dec 8, 2003
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Dec 8, 2003
D-CA	Nancy Pelosi		Dec 8, 2003
D-RI	Patrick J. Kennedy		Dec 8, 2003
R-MD	Wayne T. Gilchrest		Dec 8, 2003
R-CT	Rob Simmons		Jan 21, 2004
R-OH	Steven C. LaTourette		Jan 21, 2004
R-WI	Thomas E. Petri		Jan 21, 2004
R-MI	Vernon J. Ehlers		Jan 21, 2004
R-OH	Ralph Regula		Jan 23, 2004
R-IL	John Shimkus		Feb 10, 2004
R-DE	Michael N. Castle		Feb 10, 2004
D-NY	Edolphus Towns		Feb 11, 2004
D-TX	Gene Green		Feb 11, 2004
R-NC	Howard Coble		Feb 11, 2004
D-MD	Albert Russell Wynn		Feb 24, 2004
R-CA	Edward R. Royce		Feb 24, 2004
R-AZ	Rick Renzi		Feb 24, 2004
D-ND	Earl Pomeroy		Feb 25, 2004
R-PA	Jim Gerlach		Feb 25, 2004
D-AR	Vic Snyder		Feb 25, 2004
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez		Feb 26, 2004
R-NJ	Rodney P. Frelinghuysen		Feb 26, 2004
D-MI	Sander M. Levin		Feb 26, 2004
R-PA	Todd Russell Platts		Feb 26, 2004
D-SC	James E. Clyburn		Mar 3, 2004
D-MO	Karen McCarthy		Mar 3, 2004
R-IN	Chris Chocola		Jun 8, 2004
R-LA	David Vitter		Jul 21, 2004
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		Sep 8, 2004

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Agriculture Committee	Referred Apr 1, 2003
	Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee	Referred Apr 7, 2003

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Apr 7, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
Apr 1, 2003Introduced in House
Apr 1, 2003Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

In the Congressional Record 1

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
House	Debate and remarks H2475	Earl Blumenauer D-OR	Mar 31, 2003

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 736	Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act	Identical bill	Mar 27, 2003

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Animal Welfare Act to strengthen enforcement of provisions relating to animal fighting, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Animals.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Apr 1, 2003Introduced in House

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