Legislation Aims To Outlaw All Acts Of Animal Cruelty Nationally
Channel: Bark Pooch
Date: 2019-09-05

Preventing of Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT Act) is being introduced to increase the number of crimes punishable under animal cruelty laws. 

The Act recommends a jail term of up to seven years for people convicted of animal cruelty.

New legislation being crafted will aim to outlaw animal cruelty in all states. 

The law will allow authorities to punish those found guilty of animal cruelty regardless of their state of origin.

The proponents of the law include Democrat, Congressman Ted Deutch, and Republican Vern Buchanan, both from Florida. 

The two lawmakers say the Act aims to fill a void that has been there for many years, according to CNN. 

Every US state has a law on animal cruelty; however, all these laws have several shortcomings that culprits can exploit.

At the moment, a federal law that outlaws animal fighting is already in existence. 

The law also criminalizes animal cruelty for the creation and sale of such videos. Prosecutors say the Act aims to broaden the scope of rules. 

Say someone has committed an act of animal cruelty, and if they migrate to another state, they cannot be prosecuted.

After the PACT Act becomes law, authorities will have the power to pursue offenders irrespective of where they come from because the law gives them interstate powers. 

They will also have powers to prosecute an offender who commits an animal cruelty crime within a federal property.

Under the PACT Act, people who burn, suffocate, crush, and impale animals can be prosecuted. 

Individuals found guilty under the new law can be jailed for up to seven years besides being fined.

A press release by Buchannan says “although a law that criminalizes animal cruelty videos was passed in 2010 by Congress, these actions have not been made illegal by the federal government. 

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