MINKS are Superspreaders Act

This bill would change the Animal Welfare Act to ban transporting, selling, receiving, buying, breeding, or possessing American mink raised in captivity for fur, whether dead or alive, including their parts, products, or offspring. The ban on buying and selling covers interstate and foreign commerce. Certain entities listed in the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 would be exempt. If Congress provides funding, the Secretary would seek to buy privately owned mink farms, with offers based on the farmer's recent 3-year average number of mink and the value of the farm's infrastructure.

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Sponsors

• Vern Buchanan Republican sponsor
• 8 cosponsors