Big Cat Public Safety Act

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 116th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

RBD BlumenthalSponsor

41 cosponsors · 36 D, 3 R, 2 I

CBD Booker DFD Feinstein KGD Gillibrand KHD Harris EMD Markey BMD Menendez JRD Reed BSI Sanders CVD Van Hollen SWD Whitehouse TCD Carper SCR Collins AKI King JMD Merkley RBR Burr MMR McSally CCD Coons GPD Peters KSD Sinema JSD Shaheen BCD Casey TDD Duckworth MWD Warner CCD Cortez Masto MHD Hassan BCD Cardin RDD Durbin CMD Murphy BSD Schatz TUD Udall TBD Baldwin JRD Rosen PLD Leahy RWD Wyden MHD Heinrich PMD Murray EWD Warren AKD Klobuchar SBD Brown MHD Hirono MCD Cantwell

10 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

This bill revises requirements governing the trade of big cats (i.e., species of lion, tiger, leopard, cheetah, jaguar, or cougar or any hybrid of such species). Specifically, it revises restrictions on the possession and exhibition of big cats, including to restrict direct contact between the public and big cats.