This bill, the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act, would strengthen the 2010 Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act, which made the depiction of animal cruelty a crime but didn’t establish penalties for committing the act of animal cruelty. This bill would make it a federal crime for any person to crush, burn, drown, suffocate, impale, sexually exploit, or otherwise torture animals across state lines. It’d also make it a federal crime to engage in animal crushing on federal property. People convicted under this act would face federal felony charges, fines, and up to seven years in prison. Vote now →
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