HR 3197 · 115th Congress 2017–2019, ended

PUPPERS Act of 2017

Introduced Jul 12, 2017 Originated House Sponsor Dave Brat R-VA

Latest action · Jul 12, 2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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.

IntroducedJul 12, 2017
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Preventing Unkind and Painful Procedures and Experiments on Respected Species Act of 2017 or the PUPPERS Act of 2017

This bill prohibits the Department of Veterans Affairs, in carrying out research within the Veterans Health Administration, from purchasing, breeding, transporting, housing, feeding, maintaining, disposing of, or experimenting on dogs as part of the conduct of any study that causes significant pain or distress.

Cosponsors 101

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 12, 2017 to Dec 10, 2018; 5 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle	Original	Jul 12, 2017
R-FL	Brian J. Mast	Original	Jul 12, 2017
R-NY	Daniel M. Donovan, Jr.	Original	Jul 12, 2017
D-NV	Dina Titus	Original	Jul 12, 2017
D-CA	Ted Lieu	Original	Jul 12, 2017
D-CO	Jared Polis		Jul 19, 2017
D-CA	Nanette Diaz Barragán		Jul 19, 2017
R-VA	Thomas A. Garrett, Jr.		Jul 19, 2017
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Jul 19, 2017
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal		Jul 24, 2017
D-NH	Carol Shea-Porter		Jul 24, 2017
R-NY	Chris Collins		Jul 24, 2017
R-MN	Erik Paulsen		Jul 24, 2017
R-CO	Mike Coffman		Jul 24, 2017
R-PA	Mike Kelly		Jul 24, 2017
D-CA	Ro Khanna		Jul 24, 2017
R-KS	Ron Estes		Jul 24, 2017
D-CA	Salud O. Carbajal		Jul 24, 2017
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		Jul 27, 2017
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Jul 27, 2017
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Jul 27, 2017
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Jul 27, 2017
R-TX	Ted Poe		Jul 27, 2017
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Jul 27, 2017
R-VA	Barbara Comstock		Jul 28, 2017
R-NY	Claudia Tenney		Jul 28, 2017
D-CA	Judy Chu		Jul 28, 2017
R-AZ	Martha McSally		Jul 28, 2017
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Jul 28, 2017
R-PA	Ryan A. Costello		Jul 28, 2017
R-FL	Carlos Curbelo		Aug 15, 2017
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		Aug 15, 2017
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Aug 15, 2017
R-FL	Matt Gaetz		Aug 15, 2017
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Aug 15, 2017
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Aug 15, 2017
D-CA	Tony Cárdenas		Aug 15, 2017
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Sep 11, 2017
D-TX	Beto O'Rourke		Sep 11, 2017
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Sep 11, 2017
R-NY	Lee M. Zeldin		Sep 11, 2017
R-OH	Michael R. Turner		Sep 11, 2017
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Sep 11, 2017
R-GA	Rick W. Allen		Sep 11, 2017
D-CA	Jimmy Gomez		Sep 18, 2017
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Sep 25, 2017
D-CA	J. Luis Correa		Sep 25, 2017
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Sep 28, 2017
D-PA	Dwight Evans		Sep 28, 2017
R-MI	Mike Bishop		Sep 28, 2017
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Sep 28, 2017
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Oct 23, 2017
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Oct 23, 2017
D-FL	Darren Soto		Nov 24, 2017
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.		Nov 24, 2017
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		Nov 24, 2017
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Nov 24, 2017
D-WA	Pramila Jayapal		Dec 4, 2017
D-WI	Ron Kind		Dec 4, 2017
R-NC	Robert Pittenger		Dec 21, 2017
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Jan 9, 2018
D-DE	Lisa Blunt Rochester		Feb 5, 2018
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Feb 13, 2018
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo		Feb 13, 2018
R-FL	Vern Buchanan		Feb 15, 2018
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Feb 26, 2018
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III		Feb 26, 2018
R-MI	David A. Trott		Mar 1, 2018
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Mar 1, 2018
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Mar 1, 2018
D-FL	Charlie Crist		Mar 13, 2018
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries		Mar 13, 2018
R-FL	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen		Mar 13, 2018
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Mar 13, 2018
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		Mar 23, 2018
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Mar 23, 2018
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Mar 23, 2018
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Apr 5, 2018
R-TX	Kenny Marchant		Apr 5, 2018
R-PA	Patrick Meehan		Apr 27, 2018
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		May 15, 2018
D-IN	André Carson		Jun 25, 2018
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Sep 25, 2018
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney		Sep 25, 2018
D-CA	Karen Bass		Sep 26, 2018
D-FL	Kathy Castor		Sep 26, 2018
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		Oct 2, 2018
R-KY	Brett Guthrie		Oct 19, 2018
D-IL	Bill Foster		Oct 26, 2018
D-IL	Cheri Bustos		Oct 26, 2018
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Oct 26, 2018
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Oct 26, 2018
D-NV	Ruben J. Kihuen		Oct 26, 2018
D-MA	William R. Keating		Oct 26, 2018
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Oct 26, 2018
R-IN	Jackie Walorski		Nov 13, 2018
D-VT	Peter Welch		Nov 13, 2018
D-FL	Al Lawson, Jr.		Nov 27, 2018
D-NY	Thomas R. Suozzi		Nov 27, 2018
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Dec 10, 2018
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Dec 10, 2018

Committees 1

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

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Veterans' Affairs Committee	Referred Jul 12, 2017
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Jul 12, 2017

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jul 12, 2017Introduced in House
Jul 12, 2017Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Jul 12, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: ``The Congress shall have the Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States'' And Article I, Section 8, Clause 18: ``The Congress shall have Power To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.''

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 117, July 12, 2017, page H5759.

Titles 3

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

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from conducting medical research causing significant pain or distress to dogs.
Short Titles as Introduced: PUPPERS Act of 2017; Preventing Unkind and Painful Procedures and Experiments on Respected Species Act of 2017

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jul 12, 2017Introduced in House

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