S.479: PACT Act

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Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act or the PACT Act This bill revises and expands criminal provisions with respect to animal crushing. It retains existing criminal offenses that prohibit knowingly creating or distributing an animal crush video using interstate commerce. The bill also adds a new provision to criminalize an intentional act of animal crushing. A violator is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to seven...

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Feb. 13, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Feb. 13, 2019

Introduced in the Senate by Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.)

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