Study the connection between animal cruelty and interpersonal violence through bipartisan legislation.

Senator Peters Reintroduces Bipartisan Legislation to Study Link Between Animal Cruelty and Interpersonal Violence

Peters is reintroducing legislation to study the relationship between animal cruelty and interpersonal violence.

Press Releases | Senator Gary Peters
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Section 12502 amends federal stalking and protection-order law so threats or coercion can involve a victim's pet, service animal, emotional support animal, or horse. It also creates housing and support-grant authority for domestic-violence victims with animals and requires stakeholder training on the link between domestic violence, stalking, and abuse or neglect of those animals.

This is the closest federal legislation to the promise's violence-link component: it explicitly recognizes pets in stalking/domestic-violence protections and directs training on the abuse link.

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Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-334)
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Public Law 116-72 revised 18 U.S.C. 48 to make purposeful animal crushing and related conduct a federal offense, with the legislative history showing passage by both chambers in 2019 and presidential approval on November 25, 2019.

This later-term bipartisan animal-cruelty law shows Peters-era federal action on the animal-cruelty half of the promise, though it does not itself study interpersonal violence.

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Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (Public Law 116-72)
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