December 03rd, 2019
President Donald Trump has signed a bill into law that makes animal cruelty a felony across the country.
The U.S. Senate unanimously voted to pass the PACT Act.
The “Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act,†introduced by Congressmen Vern Buchanan and Ted Deutch, "revises and expands criminal provisions with respect to animal crushing."
It retains existing criminal offenses that prohibit knowingly creating or distributing an animal crush video using interstate commerce. The bill also adds a new provision to criminalize an intentional act of animal crushing. A violator is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to seven years, or both.
It provides additional exceptions for conduct, or a video of conduct, including conduct that is (1) medical or scientific research, (2) necessary to protect the life or property of a person, (3) performed as part of euthanizing an animal, or (4) unintentional.
It is now a crime to crush, burn, drown, suffocate, impale or otherwise subject animals to serious bodily harm. back...
The U.S. Senate unanimously voted to pass the PACT Act.
The “Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act,†introduced by Congressmen Vern Buchanan and Ted Deutch, "revises and expands criminal provisions with respect to animal crushing."
It retains existing criminal offenses that prohibit knowingly creating or distributing an animal crush video using interstate commerce. The bill also adds a new provision to criminalize an intentional act of animal crushing. A violator is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to seven years, or both.
It provides additional exceptions for conduct, or a video of conduct, including conduct that is (1) medical or scientific research, (2) necessary to protect the life or property of a person, (3) performed as part of euthanizing an animal, or (4) unintentional.
It is now a crime to crush, burn, drown, suffocate, impale or otherwise subject animals to serious bodily harm. back...
