HR 5092 · 111th Congress 2009–2011, ended

To amend section 48 (relating to depiction of animal cruelty) of title 18, United States Code, and for other purposes.

Introduced Apr 21, 2010 Originated House Sponsor Elton Gallegly R-CA

Latest action · Jun 15, 2010 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

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 21, 2010
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Amends the federal criminal code to impose a fine and/or maximum prison term of five years for anyone who knowingly sells or offers to sell an animal crush video in interstate or foreign commerce for commercial gain. States that this prohibition shall not be construed to prohibit the selling or offering to sell videos that depict hunting.

Defines "animal crush video" as any visual depiction of animals being intentionally crushed, burned, drowned, or impaled that: (1) depicts actual conduct in which a living animal is tortured, maimed, or mutilated that violates any criminal prohibition on intentional cruelty under federal law or the law of the state in which the depiction is sold; and (2) taken as a whole, does not have religious, political, scientific, educational, journalistic, historical, or artistic value.

Cosponsors 341

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 21, 2010 to Jul 13, 2010; 55 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-IL	Aaron Schock	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-NY	Anthony D. Weiner	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-OH	Betty Sutton	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-MA	Bill Delahunt	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-CA	Bob Filner	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-CA	Brad Sherman	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-IN	Dan Burton	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-OH	Dennis J. Kucinich	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-CA	Diane E. Watson	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-KY	Ed Whitfield	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-CA	Edward R. Royce	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-VA	Frank R. Wolf	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-MI	Fred Upton	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-CA	Gary G. Miller	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-WI	Gwen Moore	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-SC	Henry E. Brown, Jr.	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-NC	Howard Coble	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-CA	Howard P. "Buck" McKeon	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-FL	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-VA	J. Randy Forbes	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-VA	James P. Moran	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-FL	Jeff Miller	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-CA	Jerry Lewis	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-PA	Jim Gerlach	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-MO	Jo Ann Emerson	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-SC	Joe Wilson	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-CA	John Campbell	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-NY	John J. Hall	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-GA	John Lewis	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-GA	John Linder	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-MA	John W. Olver	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-TX	Kevin Brady	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-TX	Lamar Smith	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-CA	Lois Capps	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-CA	Mary Bono	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-DE	Michael N. Castle	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-NY	Peter T. King	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-IL	Phil Hare	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-MD	Roscoe G. Bartlett	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-NJ	Rush Holt	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-CA	Sam Farr	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-WV	Shelley Moore Capito	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-TN	Steve Cohen	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-NY	Steve Israel	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman	Original	Apr 21, 2010
D-CA	Susan A. Davis	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-AZ	Trent Franks	Original	Apr 21, 2010
R-NJ	Leonard Lance		Apr 22, 2010
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Apr 22, 2010
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		Apr 22, 2010
R-OH	Steve Austria		Apr 22, 2010
D-NH	Carol Shea-Porter		Apr 26, 2010
D-LA	Charlie Melancon		Apr 26, 2010
D-NY	Gary L. Ackerman		Apr 26, 2010
D-CA	George Miller		Apr 26, 2010
D-CO	Jared Polis		Apr 26, 2010
D-CA	John Garamendi		Apr 26, 2010
D-MD	John P. Sarbanes		Apr 26, 2010
R-CA	Ken Calvert		Apr 26, 2010
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Apr 26, 2010
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo		Apr 26, 2010
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey		Apr 26, 2010
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud		Apr 26, 2010
R-AL	Parker Griffith		Apr 26, 2010
D-PR	Pedro R. Pierluisi		Apr 26, 2010
R-NC	Sue Wilkins Myrick		Apr 26, 2010
R-PA	Todd Russell Platts		Apr 26, 2010
D-IL	Bill Foster		Apr 27, 2010
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Apr 27, 2010
R-CA	Brian P. Bilbray		Apr 27, 2010
R-FL	Ginny Brown-Waite		Apr 27, 2010
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Apr 27, 2010
R-FL	John L. Mica		Apr 27, 2010
R-IL	Judy Biggert		Apr 27, 2010
D-NC	Larry Kissell		Apr 27, 2010
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey		Apr 27, 2010
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Apr 27, 2010
R-IL	Mark Kirk		Apr 27, 2010
R-ID	Michael K. Simpson		Apr 27, 2010
R-MI	Mike Rogers		Apr 27, 2010
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Apr 27, 2010
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews		Apr 27, 2010
R-MO	Roy Blunt		Apr 27, 2010
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		Apr 27, 2010
R-FL	Vern Buchanan		Apr 27, 2010
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Apr 27, 2010
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Apr 28, 2010
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Apr 28, 2010
R-FL	C. W. Bill Young		Apr 28, 2010
R-MI	Candice S. Miller		Apr 28, 2010
D-MI	Carolyn C. Kilpatrick		Apr 28, 2010
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Apr 28, 2010
R-TN	David P. Roe		Apr 28, 2010
D-GA	David Scott		Apr 28, 2010
D-KS	Dennis Moore		Apr 28, 2010
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		Apr 28, 2010
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Apr 28, 2010
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Apr 28, 2010
R-CA	George Radanovich		Apr 28, 2010
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Apr 28, 2010
D-HI	Mazie K. Hirono		Apr 28, 2010
R-CO	Mike Coffman		Apr 28, 2010
D-MO	Russ Carnahan		Apr 28, 2010
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Apr 29, 2010
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Apr 29, 2010
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Apr 29, 2010
R-WI	F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.		Apr 29, 2010
D-CA	Fortney Pete Stark		Apr 29, 2010
D-MI	Gary C. Peters		Apr 29, 2010
D-TX	Gene Green		Apr 29, 2010
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Apr 29, 2010
R-FL	Gus M. Bilirakis		Apr 29, 2010
R-KY	Harold Rogers		Apr 29, 2010
D-CA	Jackie Speier		Apr 29, 2010
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Apr 29, 2010
R-TX	Michael C. Burgess		Apr 29, 2010
D-RI	Patrick J. Kennedy		Apr 29, 2010
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Apr 29, 2010
D-VT	Peter Welch		Apr 29, 2010
R-MI	Vernon J. Ehlers		Apr 29, 2010
D-TN	Bart Gordon		May 4, 2010
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		May 4, 2010
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		May 4, 2010
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		May 4, 2010
D-MN	James L. Oberstar		May 4, 2010
D-RI	James R. Langevin		May 4, 2010
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		May 4, 2010
D-CT	Joe Courtney		May 4, 2010
D-MA	John F. Tierney		May 4, 2010
R-TN	John J. Duncan, Jr.		May 4, 2010
R-PA	Joseph R. Pitts		May 4, 2010
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		May 4, 2010
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		May 4, 2010
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		May 4, 2010
D-WA	Norman D. Dicks		May 4, 2010
D-PA	Patrick J. Murphy		May 4, 2010
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		May 4, 2010
D-MI	Sander M. Levin		May 4, 2010
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		May 4, 2010
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		May 4, 2010
R-OH	Steven C. LaTourette		May 4, 2010
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		May 4, 2010
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		May 4, 2010
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		May 5, 2010
D-PA	Allyson Y. Schwartz		May 5, 2010
R-CA	Daniel E. Lungren		May 5, 2010
R-CA	Duncan Hunter		May 5, 2010
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		May 5, 2010
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		May 5, 2010
R-MS	Gregg Harper		May 5, 2010
D-NC	Heath Shuler		May 5, 2010
D-GA	Jim Marshall		May 5, 2010
D-WA	Jim McDermott		May 5, 2010
D-PA	Joe Sestak		May 5, 2010
R-TX	John Abney Culberson		May 5, 2010
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		May 5, 2010
D-CA	Judy Chu		May 5, 2010
D-CA	Laura Richardson		May 5, 2010
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		May 5, 2010
D-OH	Mary Jo Kilroy		May 5, 2010
D-CA	Maxine Waters		May 5, 2010
R-TX	Michael T. McCaul		May 5, 2010
D-PA	Paul E. Kanjorski		May 5, 2010
R-MI	Peter Hoekstra		May 5, 2010
D-TX	Solomon P. Ortiz		May 5, 2010
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		May 5, 2010
R-WI	Thomas E. Petri		May 5, 2010
D-OH	Tim Ryan		May 5, 2010
R-FL	Bill Posey		May 6, 2010
R-PA	Charles W. Dent		May 6, 2010
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		May 6, 2010
R-WY	Cynthia M. Lummis		May 6, 2010
R-MN	Erik Paulsen		May 6, 2010
R-OK	Frank D. Lucas		May 6, 2010
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		May 6, 2010
D-CA	Howard L. Berman		May 6, 2010
R-GA	Jack Kingston		May 6, 2010
R-OH	Jean Schmidt		May 6, 2010
R-NE	Jeff Fortenberry		May 6, 2010
R-TX	Joe Barton		May 6, 2010
R-IL	John Shimkus		May 6, 2010
R-TX	Kay Granger		May 6, 2010
R-KS	Lynn Jenkins		May 6, 2010
R-TN	Marsha Blackburn		May 6, 2010
R-MN	Michele Bachmann		May 6, 2010
R-OH	Robert E. Latta		May 6, 2010
R-LA	Rodney Alexander		May 6, 2010
R-NJ	Rodney P. Frelinghuysen		May 6, 2010
R-AL	Spencer Bachus		May 6, 2010
R-KS	Todd Tiahrt		May 6, 2010
R-OK	Tom Cole		May 6, 2010
D-WA	Adam Smith		May 11, 2010
D-IN	André Carson		May 11, 2010
R-PA	Bill Shuster		May 11, 2010
D-IA	Bruce L. Braley		May 11, 2010
R-KY	Geoff Davis		May 11, 2010
D-NM	Harry Teague		May 11, 2010
D-IL	Jerry F. Costello		May 11, 2010
D-GA	John Barrow		May 11, 2010
R-AR	John Boozman		May 11, 2010
D-NJ	John H. Adler		May 11, 2010
R-MN	John Kline		May 11, 2010
R-OK	John Sullivan		May 11, 2010
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		May 11, 2010
D-MN	Keith Ellison		May 11, 2010
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge		May 11, 2010
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		May 11, 2010
R-TX	Pete Olson		May 11, 2010
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		May 11, 2010
R-MO	Sam Graves		May 11, 2010
R-FL	Thomas J. Rooney		May 11, 2010
D-PA	Tim Holden		May 11, 2010
R-PA	Tim Murphy		May 11, 2010
R-FL	Adam H. Putnam		May 12, 2010
R-FL	Ander Crenshaw		May 12, 2010
D-MA	Barney Frank		May 12, 2010
D-KY	Ben Chandler		May 12, 2010
R-WA	David G. Reichert		May 12, 2010
R-NV	Dean Heller		May 12, 2010
D-AS	Eni F. H. Faleomavaega		May 12, 2010
D-MS	Gene Taylor		May 12, 2010
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		May 12, 2010
R-SC	J. Gresham Barrett		May 12, 2010
R-AL	Jo Bonner		May 12, 2010
R-AZ	John B. Shadegg		May 12, 2010
R-TX	Kenny Marchant		May 12, 2010
R-NE	Lee Terry		May 12, 2010
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		May 12, 2010
D-IL	Mike Quigley		May 12, 2010
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman		May 12, 2010
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		May 12, 2010
D-FL	Corrine Brown		May 13, 2010
D-AZ	Gabrielle Giffords		May 13, 2010
R-UT	Jason Chaffetz		May 13, 2010
R-TX	K. Michael Conaway		May 13, 2010
R-OK	Mary Fallin		May 13, 2010
R-IN	Steve Buyer		May 13, 2010
D-IN	Baron P. Hill		May 18, 2010
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		May 18, 2010
D-IA	David Loebsack		May 18, 2010
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		May 18, 2010
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards		May 18, 2010
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		May 18, 2010
D-AZ	Harry E. Mitchell		May 18, 2010
D-CT	James A. Himes		May 18, 2010
D-CA	Joe Baca		May 18, 2010
R-CA	Kevin McCarthy		May 18, 2010
D-NY	Michael A. Arcuri		May 18, 2010
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		May 18, 2010
R-AL	Robert B. Aderholt		May 18, 2010
D-FL	Alan Grayson		May 19, 2010
D-WA	Brian Baird		May 19, 2010
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		May 19, 2010
R-FL	Cliff Stearns		May 19, 2010
D-NY	Daniel B. Maffei		May 19, 2010
D-NY	Edolphus Towns		May 19, 2010
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		May 19, 2010
R-OR	Greg Walden		May 19, 2010
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		May 19, 2010
D-TN	Jim Cooper		May 19, 2010
D-PA	Kathleen A. Dahlkemper		May 19, 2010
D-IL	Melissa L. Bean		May 19, 2010
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		May 19, 2010
D-IN	Peter J. Visclosky		May 19, 2010
R-IA	Tom Latham		May 19, 2010
D-NY	William L. Owens		May 19, 2010
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		May 19, 2010
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		May 20, 2010
D-MN	Betty McCollum		May 20, 2010
D-AL	Bobby Bright		May 20, 2010
D-IN	Brad Ellsworth		May 20, 2010
R-NY	Christopher J. Lee		May 20, 2010
R-MI	Dave Camp		May 20, 2010
D-NC	David E. Price		May 20, 2010
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		May 20, 2010
D-TN	John S. Tanner		May 20, 2010
D-OR	Kurt Schrader		May 20, 2010
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		May 20, 2010
R-OH	Patrick J. Tiberi		May 20, 2010
R-TX	Pete Sessions		May 20, 2010
D-FL	Ron Klein		May 20, 2010
D-TX	Silvestre Reyes		May 20, 2010
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		May 20, 2010
D-NC	Brad Miller		May 24, 2010
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez		May 24, 2010
D-PA	Christopher P. Carney		May 24, 2010
D-NV	Dina Titus		May 24, 2010
R-VA	Eric Cantor		May 24, 2010
D-MD	Frank Kratovil, Jr.		May 24, 2010
D-MA	Niki Tsongas		May 24, 2010
R-TX	Ralph M. Hall		May 24, 2010
D-OH	Steve Driehaus		May 24, 2010
R-MO	W. Todd Akin		May 24, 2010
D-NY	Brian Higgins		May 25, 2010
D-NY	Michael E. McMahon		May 25, 2010
D-VA	Thomas S.P. Perriello		May 25, 2010
R-HI	Charles K. Djou		May 26, 2010
D-ND	Earl Pomeroy		May 26, 2010
D-MA	Edward J. Markey		May 26, 2010
D-WA	Jay Inslee		May 26, 2010
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		May 26, 2010
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell		May 26, 2010
R-FL	Mario Diaz-Balart		May 26, 2010
D-NM	Martin Heinrich		May 26, 2010
D-CA	Mike Thompson		May 26, 2010
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		May 26, 2010
D-NY	Scott Murphy		May 26, 2010
R-LA	Anh "Joseph" Cao		May 27, 2010
R-OH	John A. Boehner		May 27, 2010
R-TX	John R. Carter		May 27, 2010
R-OH	Michael R. Turner		May 27, 2010
D-AR	Mike Ross		May 27, 2010
R-NC	Patrick T. McHenry		May 27, 2010
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		May 28, 2010
D-CO	Betsy Markey		May 28, 2010
R-KY	Brett Guthrie		May 28, 2010
D-CA	Dennis A. Cardoza		May 28, 2010
D-CO	Diana DeGette		May 28, 2010
D-CA	Jim Costa		May 28, 2010
R-GA	Phil Gingrey		May 28, 2010
R-TX	Randy Neugebauer		May 28, 2010
D-VA	Rick Boucher		May 28, 2010
R-TX	Sam Johnson		May 28, 2010
R-TN	Zach Wamp		May 28, 2010
D-CT	Christopher Murphy		Jun 8, 2010
D-IL	Deborah L. Halvorson		Jun 8, 2010
D-CT	John B. Larson		Jun 8, 2010
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		Jun 8, 2010
D-MP	Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan		Jun 9, 2010
D-FL	Suzanne M. Kosmas		Jun 9, 2010
D-SC	John M. Spratt, Jr.		Jun 14, 2010
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Jun 24, 2010
R-MI	Thaddeus G. McCotter		Jul 13, 2010

Committees 1

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

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Judiciary Committee	Referred Apr 21, 2010
	Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee	Referred Jun 15, 2010

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jun 15, 2010Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Apr 21, 2010Introduced in House
Apr 21, 2010Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Printed hearings 1

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
Serial No. 111-129	UNITED STATES v. STEVENS: THE SUPREME COURT'S DECISION INVALIDATING THE CRUSH VIDEO STATUTE325 pages	Judiciary Committee	May 26, 2010

Related bills 3

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 3841	Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act of 2010	Related bill	Sep 27, 2010
HR 5337	Animal Torture Prevention Act of 2010	Related bill	Jul 26, 2010
HR 5566	Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act of 2010	Related bill	Dec 9, 2010

Titles 1

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

Official Title as Introduced: To amend section 48 (relating to depiction of animal cruelty) of title 18, United States Code, and for other purposes.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Apr 21, 2010Introduced in House

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