Title: PACE Act
Policy area: Animals

Summary:
Parity in Animal Cruelty Enforcement Act or the PACE Act
This bill amends the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit the sponsoring or exhibiting of animal fights involving live birds (such as cockfights). Under current law, the fights are unlawful only if they take place in states or U.S. territories or possessions that have banned it.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2971 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2971

 To amend the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit animal fighting in United 
                          States territories.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 24, 2018

 Mr. Booker (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal) introduced the following 
      bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                  Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit animal fighting in United 
                          States territories.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Parity in Animal Cruelty Enforcement 
Act'' or the ``PACE Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENDING PROHIBITION ON ANIMAL FIGHTING TO UNITED STATES 
              TERRITORIES.

    (a) In General.--Section 26 of the Animal Welfare Act (7 U.S.C. 
2156) is amended--
            (1) by striking the section designation and heading and all 
        that follows through ``paragraph (3), it'' in subsection (a)(1) 
        and inserting the following:

``SEC. 26. ANIMAL FIGHTING.

    ``(a) Sponsoring or Exhibiting Animal in, Attending, or Causing 
Underage Individual To Attend, Animal Fighting Venture.--
            ``(1) Sponsoring or exhibiting.--It'';
            (2) in subsection (a), by striking paragraph (3);
            (3) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) by striking ``subsection (e)'' and inserting 
                ``subsection (d)''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``or'' before ``promoting'';
            (4) by striking subsection (d);
            (5) by redesignating subsections (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), 
        and (j) as subsections (d), (e), (i), (f), (g), and (h), 
        respectively, and moving the subsections so as to appear in 
        alphabetical order;
            (6) in subsection (e) (as so redesignated), in the third 
        sentence, by striking ``paragraph (f)'' and inserting 
        ``subsection'';
            (7) in subsection (h) (as so redesignated), by striking 
        ``(e)'' and inserting ``(d)''; and
            (8) in paragraph (3) of subsection (i) (as so 
        redesignated), by adding ``and'' at the end.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 49(a) of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended by striking ``(e) of section 26 of the Animal Welfare 
Act'' and inserting ``(d) of section 26 of the Animal Welfare Act (7 
U.S.C. 2156)''.
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