Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Parity in Animal Cruelty Enforcement Act” or the “PACE Act”.
Parity in Animal Cruelty Enforcement Act
A BILL
To amend the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit animal fighting in United States territories.
Sec. 2 Extending prohibition on animal fighting to United States territories
by striking the section designation and heading and all that follows through “paragraph (3), it” in subsection (a)(1) and inserting the following:
“26. Animal fighting
“(a) Sponsoring or exhibiting animal in, attending, or causing underage individual To attend, animal fighting venture
“(1) Sponsoring or exhibiting—It”
in subsection (a), by striking paragraph (3);
in subsection (c)—
by striking “subsection (e)” and inserting “subsection (d)”; and
by inserting “or” before “promoting”;
by striking subsection (d);
by redesignating subsections (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), and (j) as subsections (d), (e), (i), (f), (g), and (h), respectively, and moving the subsections so as to appear in alphabetical order;
in subsection (e) (as so redesignated), in the third sentence, by striking “paragraph (f)” and inserting “subsection”;
in subsection (h) (as so redesignated), by striking “(e)” and inserting “(d)”; and
in paragraph (3) of subsection (i) (as so redesignated), by adding “and” at the end.
Conforming amendment— Section 49(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking “(e) of section 26 of the Animal Welfare Act” and inserting “(d) of section 26 of the Animal Welfare Act (7 U.S.C. 2156)”.