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Bill Status: Pending |
 | Aerial Hunting of Wildlife
Bill Number: S. 1535/H.R. 3381
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: In Session
To amend the federal Airborne Hunting Act to bar the shooting of wolves, bears, and other predators from aircraft except in limited cases involving a designated biological emergency. |
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Bill Status: Passed House |
| Wild Horses and Burros
Bill Number: H.R. 1018
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: In Session
Restores the prohibition on the commercial sale and slaughter of wild free-roaming horses and burros. This provision was stripped by an amendment slipped into the 2005 Omnibus Spending Bill.
On May 19, 2005, the U.S. House overwhelmingly passed an amendment to the Interior Appropriations bill that removed the Bureau of Land Management's funding for horse slaughter. However, this amendment was ultimately left out of the final version of the bill.
>> Action Alert! Help Save Wild Horses and Burros |
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Bill Status: Passed House |
| Shark Conservation Act of 2009
Bill Number: H.R. 81/S. 850
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: In Session
To protect sharks from the cruel practice of shark finning (cutting off sharks' fins and throwing the sharks back in the water, often while still alive). Congress banned this practice in 2000, but enforcement is complex and there is room for cheating. This legislation closes a loophole that currently permits a vessel to transport fins obtained illegally as long as the sharks were not finned aboard that vessel.
>> Action Alert! Protect Sharks from Finning
>> Get the factsheet (PDF) on this legislation |
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Bill Status: Pending |
| Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act Reauthorization
Bill Number: H.R. 2213/S.R. 690
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: In Session
To extend through Fiscal Year 2015 the law authorizing grants to assist local conservation efforts for neotropical migratory birds. |
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Bill Status: Pending |
| Sportsmanship in Hunting Act of 2009
Bill Number: H.R. 2308
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: In Session
The Sportsmanship in Hunting Act would prohibit the shooting of live animals remotely via the Internet, and will halt the interstate shipment of captive, exotic mammals for the sole purpose of being shot in a fenced enclosure for entertainment or for trophy. A bill to amend Title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain interstate conduct relating to exotic animals and certain computer-assisted remote hunting, and for other purposes.
>> Action Alert! Tell Congress to Support the Sportsmanship in Hunting Act |
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Bill Status: Passed committee |
| Python Importation
Bill Number: H.R. 2811/S. 373
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: In Session
To ban the interstate commerce and importation of pythons. |
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Bill Status: Passed House |
| Captive Primate Safety Act
Bill Number: H.R. 80/S. 462
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: In Session
Prohibits interstate and foreign commerce in nonhuman primates (chimpanzees, monkeys, lemurs and others) for the pet trade. Some states already prohibit private ownership of nonhuman primates as pets, but since these animals are often moved between states for the pet trade, federal legislation is needed to curb this interstate commerce.
H.R. 80 passed the House by a vote of 323-95.
>> Action Alert! Support the Captive Primate Safety Act |
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Bill Status: Passed committee |
| Crane Conservation Act
Bill Number: H.R. 388/S. 197
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: In Session
To assist in the conservation of cranes by supporting and providing financial resources for conservation programs. |
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Bill Status: Passed committee |
| Great Cats and Rare Canids Act
Bill Number: H.R. 411/S. 529
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: In Session
Provides support and financial resources for conservation programs of rare felids (such as lions, leopards, jaguars, cheetahs, and iberian lynx) and canids (such as the gray wolf, ethiopian wolf, maned wolf, and african and asiatic wild dogs) to nations within the animals' natural range. |
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Bill Status: Pending |
| Marine Turtle Conservation Reauthorization Act
Bill Number: H.R. 509
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: In Session
To authorize an additional five years of grants for marine turtle conservation projects in foreign countries, expand eligibility to include projects in the U.S., and increase authorized funding levels. |
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Bill Status: Pending |
| Neo-tropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act
Bill Number: H.R. 2213
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: In Session
Reauthorizes an existing program that provides funds for the conservation of neo-tropical migratory birds. |
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Bill Status: Pending |
| Bear Protection Act of 2009
Bill Number: H.R. 3480
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: In Session
To help stop the illegal poaching of bears and conserve global bear populations by prohibiting the import, export and interstate commerce in bear parts such as the gallbladder and bile. |
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Bill Status: Pending |
| Refuge From Cruel Trapping Act
Bill Number: H.R. 3710
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status:
To prohibit the use of body-gripping traps (defined as "any device intended to kill or capture wildlife by physically restraining any part of the animal") in the National Wildlife Refuge System. |
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Bill Status: Passed |
| Wild Horse and Burro Adoption Day
Bill Number: H.R. 688/S.R. 221 and S.R. 283
HSUS Position: Support
Legislature Status: In Session
To express support for the goals and ideals of the first annual National Wild Horse and Burro Adoption Day taking place on Sept. 26, 2009.
S.R. 283 (which superseded S.R. 221) was approved by the full Senate on 9/23/09 by voice vote. H.R. 688 was approved by the full House on 9/22/09 by voice vote. |
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