Captive Primate Safety Act

Bill: 116-s-2562
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2019-09-26
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships

Civil actions and liability

Crimes against animals and natural resources

Mammals

Trade restrictions

Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
Latest action: action_date: 2019-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-09-26
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Captive Primate Safety Act</b></p> <p>This bill revises requirements governing the trade of wildlife species, including to add nonhuman primate species to the list of wildlife species that may not be imported, exported, transported, sold, received, acquired, or purchased in interstate or foreign commerce. </p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2562 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 26, 2019 Mr. Blumenthal (for himself, Mr. Murphy , Mr. Sanders , Mr. Menendez , Mr. Van Hollen , Mr. Whitehouse , Mrs. Feinstein , Mrs. Gillibrand , Mr. Merkley , Mr. Reed , Mr. Markey , Mr. Booker , and Ms. Harris ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works A BILL To amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to prohibit the importation, exportation, transportation, sale, receipt, acquisition, and purchase in interstate or foreign commerce, or in a manner substantially affecting interstate or foreign commerce, of any live animal of any prohibited wildlife species.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Captive Primate Safety Act . 2. Addition of nonhuman primates to definition of prohibited wildlife species Section 2(g) of the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 ( 16 U.S.C. 3371(g) ) is amended— (1) by striking means any live species and inserting the following: “means any live— (1) species ; and (2) by striking cougar or any hybrid of such species. and inserting the following: “cougar; (2) hybrid of a species described in paragraph (1); or (3) nonhuman primate. . 3. Captive wildlife amendments (a) Prohibited acts Section 3 of the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 ( 16 U.S.C. 3372 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) in paragraph (2)— (i) in subparagraph (A), by adding or after the semicolon; (ii) in subparagraph (B)(iii), by striking ; or and inserting a semicolon; and (iii) by striking subparagraph (C); and (B) in paragraph (4), by inserting or subsection (e) before the period; and (2) in subsection (e)— (A) by striking the subsection designation and heading and all that follows through the period at the end of paragraph (1) and inserting the following: (e) Captive wildlife offense (1) In general Except as provided in paragraph (2), it is unlawful for any person to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase in interstate or foreign commerce, or in a manner substantially affecting interstate or foreign commerce, any live animal of any prohibited wildlife species. ; (B) in paragraph (2)— (i) by striking the paragraph designation and heading and all that follows through person— in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) and inserting the following: (2) Limitation on application Paragraph (1) does not apply to any person that— ; (ii) in subparagraph (A)— (I) by striking (A) is licensed and inserting (A)(i) is licensed ; and (II) in clause (i) (as so designated), by striking species; and inserting the following: “species; and (ii) does not allow direct contact between any member of the public and a live bear, tiger, lion, jaguar, cougar, African leopard, snow leopard, ape, gibbon, siamang, monkey, or loris, regardless of the age of the live animal; ; (iii) in subparagraph (B), by striking , State-licensed wildlife rehabilitator, ; (iv) in subparagraph (C)— (I) by striking an accredited and inserting a ; (II) in clause (ii), by striking such animals and inserting a prohibited wildlife species ; (III) in clauses (ii) and (iii), by striking animals listed in section 2(g) each place it appears and inserting any prohibited wildlife species ; and (IV) in clause (iv), by striking animals and inserting a prohibited wildlife species ; and (v) in subparagraph (D), by striking animal each place it appears and inserting prohibited wildlife species ; (C) by striking paragraphs (3) and (5); and (D) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (3). (b) Civil penalties Section 4(a)(1) of the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 ( 16 U.S.C. 3373(a)(1) ) is amended— (1) by inserting (e), after subsections (b), (d), ; and (2) by inserting , (e), after subsection (d) . (c) Criminal penalties Section 4(d) of the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 ( 16 U.S.C. 3373(d) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), in subparagraphs (A) and (B), by inserting (e), after subsections (b), (d), each place it appears; (2) in paragraph (2), by inserting (e), after subsections (b), (d), ; and (3) in paragraph (3), by inserting , (e), after subsection (d) . (d) Effective date Subsections (a) through (c), and the amendments made by those subsections, shall take effect on the earlier of— (1) the date of promulgation of regulations under paragraph (3) of section 7(a) of the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 ( 16 U.S.C. 3376(a) ) (as added by section 4); and (2) the expiration of the period described in that paragraph. 4. Regulations Section 7(a) of the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 ( 16 U.S.C. 3376(a) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (3) Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of the Captive Primate Safety Act , the Secretary shall— (A) in consultation with other relevant Federal and State agencies, promulgate regulations to implement section 3(e) (as amended by section 3(a) of that Act, notwithstanding section 3(d) of that Act); and (B) promulgate regulations to implement any other amendments made by section 3 of that Act (notwithstanding section 3(d) of that Act). .