Purpose: This bill would create the Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act to provide a two-year (felony) imprisonment penalty for animal fighting violations. If passed, this bill would make it unlawful to buy, sell, transport, deliver or receive an animal interstate (or import an animal from another country) for animal fighting. In addition, it bans the interstate (or foreign) sale, purchase, transport, or delivery of slashers and gaffs. Finally, it prohibits the promotion of animal fighting ventures through the use of the U.S. mail.
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Status: Passed by the House Judiciary Committee. Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 468, 10/07/04.
Action: SUPPORT. Animals should not used as participants in the vicious and inhumane “sport” of contest fighting.