Title: Canyon’s Law
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Chemical Poisons Reduction Act of 2019 or Canyon's Law
This bill prohibits the use of sodium fluoroacetate (i.e., Compound 1080) and sodium cyanide in a predator control device. It imposes criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to two years, or both—on a violator.
A predator control device is a dispenser, livestock collar, or gas cartridge that propels, releases, or emits sodium fluoroacetate or sodium cyanide for wildlife management or animal control purposes.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1301 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1301

   To prohibit the use of the poisons sodium fluoroacetate (known as 
      ``Compound 1080'') and sodium cyanide for predator control.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 2, 2019

Mr. Merkley (for himself and Mr. Booker) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and 
                              Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit the use of the poisons sodium fluoroacetate (known as 
      ``Compound 1080'') and sodium cyanide for predator control.

    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 ``Chemical Poisons Reduction Act of 
2019'' or ``Canyon's Law''.

SEC. 2. PURPOSE.

    The purpose of this Act is to restrict the use of the poisons 
sodium fluoroacetate (known as ``Compound 1080'') and sodium cyanide to 
kill predatory animals due to the risks posed by those poisons to--
            (1) public safety;
            (2) national security;
            (3) the environment; and
            (4) persons and other animals that come into accidental 
        contact with those poisons.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON USE OF CERTAIN POISONS FOR PREDATOR CONTROL.

    (a) Definition of Predator Control Device.--In this section, the 
term ``predator control device'' means--
            (1) a dispenser designed to propel sodium fluoroacetate or 
        sodium cyanide when activated by an animal;
            (2) a livestock protection collar designed to release 
        sodium fluoroacetate or sodium cyanide when punctured by an 
        animal;
            (3) a gas cartridge or other pyrotechnic device designed to 
        emit sodium fluoroacetate or sodium cyanide fumes when 
        activated by an animal; and
            (4) any other means of dispensing sodium fluoroacetate or 
        sodium cyanide, including in the form of capsules, for wildlife 
        management or other animal control purposes.
    (b) Prohibition.--It shall be unlawful to use sodium fluoroacetate 
(known as ``Compound 1080'') or sodium cyanide in a predator control 
device.
    (c) Penalty.--Any person that violates subsection (b) shall be 
fined under title 18, United States Code, imprisoned for not more than 
2 years, or both.
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