Big Cat Public Safety Act

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 117th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

RBD BlumenthalSponsor

48 cosponsors · 42 D, 4 R, 2 I

RBR Burr TCD Carper SCR Collins DFD Feinstein CMD Murphy CBD Booker BCD Casey KGD Gillibrand AKI King EMD Markey JRD Rosen JSD Shaheen MWD Warner EWD Warren AKD Klobuchar JMD Merkley APD Padilla JRD Reed BSD Schatz GPD Peters CVD Van Hollen TBD Baldwin RPR Portman SBD Brown RMR Marshall MCD Cantwell CCD Coons RWD Wyden CCD Cortez Masto BMD Menendez MHD Hassan BLD Luján TDD Duckworth SWD Whitehouse TSD Smith BCD Cardin JHD Hickenlooper BSI Sanders PMD Murray PLD Leahy KSD Sinema MHD Heinrich RDD Durbin DSD Stabenow RWD Warnock MHD Hirono TKD Kaine MBD Bennet

3 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.