HR 2840 · 117th Congress 2021–2023, ended

Puppy Protection Act of 2021

Introduced Apr 26, 2021 Originated House Sponsor Brian K. Fitzpatrick R-PA

Latest action · Jun 21, 2021 Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.

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 26, 2021
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Puppy Protection Act of 2021

This bill requires the Department of Agriculture to expand standards that govern the humane handling, care, treatment, and transportation of animals to include new requirements for commercial dog dealers. Specifically, the standards must require dog dealers to provide to dogs

adequate housing, exercise, and veterinary care;
appropriate and nutritious food;
continuous access to potable water; and
meaningful socialization with humans and compatible dogs for at least 30 minutes each day.

The standards must also include requirements for breeders to use safe breeding practices and make all reasonable efforts to find humane placement for retired breeding dogs.

Cosponsors 223

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 26, 2021 to Dec 23, 2022; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-FL	Charlie Crist	Original	Apr 26, 2021
R-PA	Guy Reschenthaler	Original	Apr 26, 2021
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Original	Apr 26, 2021
D-VA	A. Donald McEachin		Apr 30, 2021
D-MI	Andy Levin		Apr 30, 2021
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		Apr 30, 2021
D-VA	Elaine G. Luria		Apr 30, 2021
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Apr 30, 2021
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Apr 30, 2021
D-MI	Haley M. Stevens		Apr 30, 2021
D-CA	Juan Vargas		Apr 30, 2021
D-GA	Lucy McBath		Apr 30, 2021
D-CA	Mark Takano		Apr 30, 2021
D-PA	Mary Gay Scanlon		Apr 30, 2021
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		Apr 30, 2021
D-CA	Ro Khanna		Apr 30, 2021
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick		May 4, 2021
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		May 4, 2021
D-IA	Cynthia Axne		May 4, 2021
D-MD	David J. Trone		May 4, 2021
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		May 4, 2021
D-CA	Katie Porter		May 4, 2021
D-FL	Lois Frankel		May 4, 2021
D-MI	Rashida Tlaib		May 4, 2021
D-PA	Susan Wild		May 4, 2021
D-AZ	Tom O'Halleran		May 4, 2021
R-NY	Tom Reed		May 4, 2021
D-TX	Veronica Escobar		May 4, 2021
R-FL	W. Gregory Steube		May 4, 2021
D-MA	William R. Keating		May 4, 2021
D-NY	Antonio Delgado		May 7, 2021
D-IL	Bradley Scott Schneider		May 7, 2021
D-PA	Chrissy Houlahan		May 7, 2021
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		May 7, 2021
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		May 7, 2021
D-CA	Josh Harder		May 7, 2021
D-NY	Kathleen M. Rice		May 7, 2021
D-WA	Pramila Jayapal		May 7, 2021
D-TN	Steve Cohen		May 7, 2021
D-WA	Adam Smith		May 11, 2021
D-NJ	Andy Kim		May 11, 2021
D-CA	Mike Levin		May 11, 2021
D-CA	Sara Jacobs		May 11, 2021
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		May 12, 2021
D-NV	Dina Titus		May 12, 2021
D-CA	Judy Chu		May 12, 2021
D-MA	Lori Trahan		May 12, 2021
D-CA	Salud O. Carbajal		May 12, 2021
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		May 12, 2021
D-FL	Stephanie N. Murphy		May 12, 2021
D-TX	Colin Z. Allred		May 13, 2021
D-PA	Conor Lamb		May 13, 2021
D-NV	Susie Lee		May 13, 2021
D-CA	Ted Lieu		May 13, 2021
D-RI	James R. Langevin		May 14, 2021
D-NH	Chris Pappas		May 17, 2021
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		May 17, 2021
D-VT	Peter Welch		May 17, 2021
D-WI	Ron Kind		May 17, 2021
R-FL	Carlos A. Gimenez		May 18, 2021
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		May 18, 2021
D-MA	Seth Moulton		May 18, 2021
D-VA	Abigail Davis Spanberger		May 25, 2021
D-CT	Joe Courtney		May 25, 2021
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		May 28, 2021
D-IL	Jesús G. "Chuy" García		Jun 1, 2021
D-CT	John B. Larson		Jun 8, 2021
D-NC	Deborah K. Ross		Jun 11, 2021
D-CA	Raul Ruiz		Jun 11, 2021
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Jun 15, 2021
D-FL	Val Butler Demings		Jun 17, 2021
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Jun 22, 2021
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal		Jun 23, 2021
D-MA	Jake Auchincloss		Jun 23, 2021
D-TX	Lizzie Fletcher		Jun 23, 2021
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Jun 23, 2021
D-NY	Thomas R. Suozzi		Jun 23, 2021
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle		Jun 24, 2021
D-NY	Adriano Espaillat		Jul 1, 2021
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		Jul 9, 2021
D-HI	Kaiali'i Kahele		Jul 9, 2021
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Jul 26, 2021
D-IL	Lauren Underwood		Jul 27, 2021
D-NJ	Josh Gottheimer		Aug 6, 2021
D-IL	Sean Casten		Aug 20, 2021
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		Aug 24, 2021
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Aug 24, 2021
D-NJ	Tom Malinowski		Aug 24, 2021
D-MD	Anthony G. Brown		Sep 23, 2021
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman		Sep 23, 2021
D-MI	Brenda L. Lawrence		Sep 23, 2021
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Sep 23, 2021
D-FL	Darren Soto		Sep 23, 2021
D-MI	Debbie Dingell		Sep 23, 2021
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Sep 23, 2021
D-MI	Elissa Slotkin		Sep 23, 2021
D-CA	Jared Huffman		Sep 23, 2021
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Sep 23, 2021
D-CA	Jimmy Panetta		Sep 23, 2021
D-CO	Joe Neguse		Sep 23, 2021
D-MD	John P. Sarbanes		Sep 23, 2021
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Sep 23, 2021
D-PA	Madeleine Dean		Sep 23, 2021
D-TX	Marc A. Veasey		Sep 23, 2021
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Sep 23, 2021
D-NJ	Mikie Sherrill		Sep 23, 2021
D-CA	Norma J. Torres		Sep 23, 2021
D-NY	Ritchie Torres		Sep 23, 2021
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		Sep 23, 2021
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene		Sep 23, 2021
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Sep 24, 2021
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Sep 28, 2021
D-NC	David E. Price		Sep 28, 2021
D-AZ	Greg Stanton		Sep 28, 2021
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Sep 28, 2021
R-NY	John Katko		Sep 28, 2021
D-NY	Mondaire Jones		Sep 28, 2021
D-IL	Raja Krishnamoorthi		Sep 28, 2021
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Sep 28, 2021
D-TX	Sylvia R. Garcia		Sep 28, 2021
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Sep 29, 2021
D-CT	James A. Himes		Sep 29, 2021
D-CO	Jason Crow		Sep 29, 2021
D-VA	Jennifer Wexton		Sep 29, 2021
R-FL	Vern Buchanan		Sep 29, 2021
D-IN	André Carson		Sep 30, 2021
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Sep 30, 2021
D-FL	Al Lawson, Jr.		Oct 5, 2021
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Oct 5, 2021
D-CA	Ami Bera		Oct 8, 2021
D-CA	Karen Bass		Oct 8, 2021
D-GA	Nikema Williams		Oct 8, 2021
D-IL	Bill Foster		Oct 12, 2021
D-NC	Alma S. Adams		Oct 15, 2021
R-FL	Bill Posey		Oct 15, 2021
D-TN	Jim Cooper		Oct 15, 2021
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Oct 15, 2021
R-FL	Matt Gaetz		Oct 15, 2021
D-NM	Melanie A. Stansbury		Oct 15, 2021
R-SC	Nancy Mace		Oct 15, 2021
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Oct 15, 2021
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		Oct 19, 2021
D-KS	Sharice Davids		Oct 20, 2021
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Oct 21, 2021
D-TX	Al Green		Oct 22, 2021
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Oct 22, 2021
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Oct 22, 2021
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Oct 22, 2021
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Oct 22, 2021
D-MA	Ayanna Pressley		Oct 25, 2021
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Oct 25, 2021
D-IL	Cheri Bustos		Oct 25, 2021
D-PA	Dwight Evans		Oct 25, 2021
D-MN	Ilhan Omar		Oct 25, 2021
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Oct 25, 2021
R-FL	Maria Elvira Salazar		Oct 25, 2021
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier		Oct 25, 2021
D-CA	Nanette Diaz Barragán		Oct 25, 2021
R-TX	Tony Gonzales		Oct 25, 2021
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Oct 25, 2021
D-MD	Jamie Raskin		Oct 26, 2021
R-NY	Nicole Malliotakis		Oct 26, 2021
D-IL	Robin L. Kelly		Oct 26, 2021
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Oct 28, 2021
D-NY	Joseph D. Morelle		Oct 28, 2021
D-WA	Marilyn Strickland		Oct 28, 2021
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.		Nov 1, 2021
D-NM	Teresa Leger Fernandez		Nov 1, 2021
D-NY	Grace Meng		Nov 5, 2021
D-CA	Brad Sherman		Nov 9, 2021
D-NJ	Donald Norcross		Nov 9, 2021
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Nov 9, 2021
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Nov 9, 2021
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark		Nov 9, 2021
D-IL	Marie Newman		Nov 9, 2021
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Nov 9, 2021
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Nov 9, 2021
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.		Nov 12, 2021
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Nov 12, 2021
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Nov 12, 2021
R-MI	Fred Upton		Nov 15, 2021
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Nov 16, 2021
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		Nov 16, 2021
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Nov 17, 2021
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Nov 17, 2021
D-DE	Lisa Blunt Rochester		Nov 18, 2021
D-NV	Steven Horsford		Nov 18, 2021
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Nov 23, 2021
R-CA	Young Kim		Nov 30, 2021
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Dec 2, 2021
D-IN	Frank J. Mrvan		Dec 7, 2021
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Dec 14, 2021
D-CA	John Garamendi		Dec 14, 2021
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Dec 14, 2021
D-CA	Tony Cárdenas		Dec 16, 2021
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Dec 23, 2021
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Dec 27, 2021
D-MN	Dean Phillips		Dec 27, 2021
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Jan 6, 2022
R-FL	Michael Waltz		Jan 6, 2022
D-CA	Jim Costa		Jan 14, 2022
R-FL	Brian J. Mast		Jan 18, 2022
D-CA	J. Luis Correa		Jan 20, 2022
D-FL	Kathy Castor		Feb 1, 2022
D-CA	Jimmy Gomez		Feb 15, 2022
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Feb 22, 2022
D-TX	Vicente Gonzalez		Mar 16, 2022
D-GA	Carolyn Bourdeaux		Mar 28, 2022
D-FL	Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick		Jun 15, 2022
D-NC	Kathy E. Manning		Jun 28, 2022
D-MN	Angie Craig		Jul 18, 2022
D-CT	Jahana Hayes		Jul 28, 2022
R-TX	Lance Gooden		Sep 13, 2022
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Sep 13, 2022
R-OH	Mike Carey		Sep 19, 2022
D-OH	Shontel M. Brown		Sep 20, 2022
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney		Sep 28, 2022
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Oct 7, 2022
D-CA	Maxine Waters		Oct 18, 2022
D-TX	Joaquin Castro		Oct 21, 2022
D-MD	Kweisi Mfume		Nov 10, 2022
D-NY	Patrick Ryan		Dec 15, 2022
D-ME	Jared F. Golden		Dec 23, 2022

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 26, 2021
	Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Subcommittee	Referred Jun 21, 2021

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jun 21, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
Apr 26, 2021Introduced in House
Apr 26, 2021Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

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 1, Section 8, Clause 1

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 167, no. 71, April 26, 2021, page H2115.

CRS reports 2

Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.

Cite it 2

Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.

Product	Title	Kind	Published
R47179	The Animal Welfare Act: Background and Selected Issues	Report	Feb 8, 2023
R47057	Preparing for the Next Farm Bill Archived	Report	Mar 31, 2022

Related bills 3

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 1385	Puppy Protection Act of 2021	Related bill	Apr 27, 2021
HR 1624	Puppy Protection Act of 2023	Reintroduced Bill	Apr 19, 2023
HR 2442	Puppy Protection Act of 2019	Reintroduction of	May 16, 2019

Titles 2

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

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Animal Welfare Act to provide for the humane treatment of dogs, and for other purposes.
Short Title(s) as Introduced: Puppy Protection Act of 2021

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Apr 26, 2021Introduced in House

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