[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3136 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3136

To require the Secretary of Agriculture to issue guidelines relating to 
 civil fines imposed for violations of the Animal Welfare Act, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 21, 2015

  Mr. Blum (for himself, Mr. Cramer, and Mr. Benishek) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to issue guidelines relating to 
 civil fines imposed for violations of the Animal Welfare Act, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Enforcement Transparency Act of 
2015''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO ISSUE GUIDELINES RELATING TO FINES.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall publish on 
the public Internet Web site of the Department of Agriculture 
guidelines relating to the calculation of civil fines under section 19 
of the Animal Welfare Act (7 U.S.C. 2149) for violations of such Act (7 
U.S.C. 2131 et seq.).
    (b) Updates.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall--
            (1) update the guidelines published under paragraph (1) on 
        a quarterly basis;
            (2) not later than 10 days before making such updates, 
        publish a notice on the public Internet Web site of the 
        Department of Agriculture of such updates; and
            (3) publish such updates in the Federal Register.
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