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HR 1581 106th Congress House Animals Arrest Commerce Crime and Law Enforcement Export controls Fines (Penalties) Foreign Trade and International Finance Forfeiture Fur trade Import restrictions Informers Injunctions Interstate commerce Law Protection of animals Recidivists Searches and seizures Sentences (Criminal procedure) Transportation and Public Works Trapping

To end the use of steel-jawed leghold traps on animals in the United States.

Introduced: April 27, 1999 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 6 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 15, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade.
May 17, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection.
May 7, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
May 5, 1999
Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Apr 27, 1999
Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, International Relations, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Apr 27, 1999
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Prohibits the import, export, or shipment in interstate commerce of conventional steel jawed leghold traps and of articles of fur derived from animals trapped in such traps.

Prescribes criminal penalties for violations of this Act.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to reward informers (other than Government employees performing official duties) for information leading to a conviction under this Act. Empowers enforcement officials to detain, search, and seize suspected merchandise or documents and to make arrests with and without warrants. Subjects seized merchandise to forfeiture.

What's happening now June 15, 1999

Referred to the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 8
 Cosponsors 13
All 13 Democratic 12 Republican 1
D
Davis, Danny K.
Illinois · Aug 4, 1999
 D
Thompson, Bennie G.
Mississippi · Jul 13, 1999
 D
Nadler, Jerrold
New York · Jun 10, 1999
 D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Jun 10, 1999
 D
Baldwin, Tammy
Wisconsin · Apr 27, 1999
 D
DeLauro, Rosa L.
Connecticut · Apr 27, 1999
 D
Lofgren, Zoe
California · Apr 27, 1999
 D
Neal, Richard E.
Massachusetts · Apr 27, 1999
 D
Pallone, Frank
New Jersey · Apr 27, 1999
 D
Pelosi, Nancy
California · Apr 27, 1999
 D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Apr 27, 1999
 D
Sherman, Brad
California · Apr 27, 1999
 R
Smith, Christopher H.
New Jersey · Apr 27, 1999
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1581: To end the use of steel-jawed leghold traps on animals in the United States.. 106th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-1581/
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