Title: To amend the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, with respect to enforcement of animal fighting ventures prohibition in the territories, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Animals

Summary:
This bill delays the implementation of a ban on sponsoring or exhibiting live birds in fighting ventures (e.g., cockfights) in states and U.S. territories and possessions that do not ban such fights. In addition, the Department of Agriculture must analyze the impacts of the ban on U.S. territories and possessions.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5436 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5436

   To amend the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, with respect to 
enforcement of animal fighting ventures prohibition in the territories, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 16, 2019

Miss Gonzalez-Colon of Puerto Rico introduced the following bill; which 
              was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, with respect to 
enforcement of animal fighting ventures prohibition in the territories, 
                        and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. REPORT ON ECONOMIC IMPACT OF PROHIBITION ON ANIMAL FIGHTING.

    (a) Delay of Implementation.--Section 12616(e) of the Agriculture 
Improvement Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-334) is amended by striking 
``on the date that is one year after the date of the enactment of this 
Act'' and inserting ``on December 20, 2021''.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 270 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation 
with the head of each covered agency, shall submit to the Committee on 
Small Business, the Committee on Financial Services, and the Committee 
on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Small Business and Entrepreneurship, the Committee on Finance, and the 
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a 
report containing--
            (1) an analysis of the economic impact on Puerto Rico and 
        each of the other territories and possessions of the United 
        States if the prohibition on animal fighting under section 
        12616 of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (Public Law 
        115-334) is expanded to the territories and possessions of the 
        United States;
            (2) the enforcement of such prohibition in the territories 
        or possessions of the United States, whether or not there are 
        adequate resources to do so, and how much funding it would take 
        to achieve necessary levels of enforcement;
            (3) what other resources would be required to enforce such 
        prohibition in the territories or possessions of the United 
        States if it goes into effect; and
            (4) impacts of such prohibition on roosters in such 
        territories and possessions and on the overall health and well-
        being of roosters generally.
    (c) Definition of Covered Agency.--The term ``covered agency'' 
means the Small Business Administration, the Department of Health and 
Human Services, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and 
the Department of Justice.
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