[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4310 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4310

   To amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to prohibit the import, 
     export, transport, sale, receipt, acquirement, or purchase in 
    interstate or foreign commerce of mink, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 1, 2021

   Ms. DeLauro (for herself, Ms. Mace, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. McCaul, Mr. 
DeFazio, Ms. Tenney, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Valadao, Ms. Escobar, and Mr. 
 Gooden of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to prohibit the import, 
     export, transport, sale, receipt, acquirement, or purchase in 
    interstate or foreign commerce of mink, 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 ``Minks in Narrowly Kept Spaces are 
Superspreaders Act'' or the ``MINKS are Superspreaders Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITIONS RELATING TO MINK.

    (a) Lacey Act Amendments.--Section 3 of the Lacey Act Amendments of 
1981 (16 U.S.C. 3372) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(2)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (B)(iii), by striking ``or'' at 
                the end;
                    (B) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ``or'' after 
                the semicolon; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(D) any American mink (Neovison vison) raised in 
                captivity for fur production, whether dead or alive, or 
                any part, product, or offspring thereof (subject to 
                subsection (e));''; and
            (2) in subsection (e)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``Subsection 
                (a)(2)(C) does'' and inserting ``Subparagraphs (C) and 
                (D) of subsection (a)(2) do''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``or mink described in subsection 
                (a)(2)(D)'' after ``species'' each place it appears.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on the date that is 1 year after the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
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