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Week Ending April 29, 2005

S. 382 to strengthen prohibitions against animal fighting and for other purposes.

BRIEF

    If you want to use an animal to help you hunt birds, raccoons, foxes, waterfowl and so on, that is OK. If you knowingly sponsor transporting a bird or other animal across a State line to fight, even if the animal fight is legal in that State, you would face a fine and up to two years imprisonment.

   Similarly it is prohibited to use the US Postal Service to promote an animal fight across State lines but not prohibited to do so within a State where the fights are legal. Interstate transport of a “knife, gaff or other sharp instrument” attached to the leg of a fighting bird would be prohibited.

Sponsor: Senator John Ensign (R-NV)

Vote: Passed Senate by Unanimous Consent. (April 28, 2005)

Cost to the taxpayers: No discernible cost.

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