HR 7398
117th Congress
House
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Hunting and fishing
Land use and conservation
Prohibit Wildlife Killing Contests Act of 2022
Everywhere this bill has been
5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 16, 2022
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Apr 18, 2022
Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
Apr 6, 2022
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
Apr 5, 2022
Introduced in House
Apr 5, 2022
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.
Plain-English summary
Prohibit Wildlife Killing Contests Act of 2022
This bill makes it unlawful for any persons, except as provided below, to organize, sponsor, conduct, or participate in wildlife killing contests on public lands.
This bill shall not apply to
- field trials,
- wildlife killing contests that exclusively target ungulates (e.g., deer) or birds of the orders Galliformes (e.g., turkeys) or Anatidae (e.g., ducks), or
- lethal control actions by state or federal agencies that target wildlife classified as invasive by the National Invasive Species Information Center.
What's happening now
Subcommittee Hearings Held.