HR 1477 · in committee · major
Animal Cruelty Enforcement Act of 2025
- criminal justice
What this bill does
- The bill creates a new enforcement unit in the Department of Justice to prosecute federal animal cruelty crimes.
- Federal prosecutors and the animal protection community will have dedicated resources for enforcement.
- The bill establishes the unit within existing DOJ structures without specifying new appropriations.
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Community Threads
Started by Cosponsor
- 01
How would dedicating DOJ resources to animal cruelty prosecution affect the department's capacity to pursue other federal crimes?
- 02
What specific animal cruelty offenses currently go unprosecuted that this enforcement unit is designed to address?
- 03
Should Congress appropriate new funding for this unit, or should it operate within existing DOJ budgets by reallocating resources?
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Sponsor · R-OH-14
David P. Joyce
Citizen cosponsors
0
In Congress
49/ 435
House Reps cosponsoring
Introduced 2025-02-21
Joining the bill
Joe Neguse
D-CO-2 · original
Juan Ciscomani
R-AZ-6 · original
Steve Cohen
D-TN-9 · original
Jefferson Shreve
R-IN-6
Josh Harder
D-CA-9
Herbert C. Conaway, Jr.
D-NJ-3
Michael Lawler
R-NY-17
Paul Tonko
D-NY-20
Lloyd Doggett
D-TX-37
Michael T. McCaul
R-TX-10
Jennifer A. Kiggans
R-VA-2
Nydia M. Velázquez
D-NY-7
+ 37 more
Legislative timeline
2025-02-21 · house · IntroReferral
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2025-02-21 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
2025-02-21 · IntroReferral
Introduced in House
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