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S 2439 110th Congress Senate Crime and Law Enforcement Animals Criminal justice information Criminal statistics Government Operations and Politics Protection of animals

A bill to require the National Incident Based Reporting System, the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, and the Law Enforcement National Data Exchange Program to list cruelty to animals as a separate…

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A bill to require the National Incident Based Reporting System, the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, and the Law Enforcement National Data Exchange Program to list cruelty to animals as a separate offense category.

Introduced: December 10, 2007 See on congress.gov
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Dec 10, 2007
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Dec 10, 2007
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15064)
Dec 10, 2007
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Requires the Attorney General to modify the National Incident Based Reporting System, the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, and the Law Enforcement National Data Exchange Program to list cruelty to animals as a separate offense category.

What's happening now December 10, 2007

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 2
D
Schumer, Charles E.
New York · Apr 14, 2008
 D
Durbin, Richard J.
Illinois · Jan 29, 2008
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2439: A bill to require the National Incident Based Reporting System, the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, and the Law Enforcement National Data Exchange Program to list cruelty to animals as a separate offense category.. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-S-2439/
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"S. 2439: A bill to require the National Incident Based Reporting System, the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, and the Law Enforcement National Data Exchange Program to list cruelty to animals as a separate offense category.." 110th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/110-S-2439/.
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S. 2439, 110th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/110-S-2439/.
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