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![handle is hein.animal/awaacr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 94ma CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT
2d Session No. 94-976
ANIMAL WELFARE ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1976
MAnoH 29, 1976.--Ordered to be printed
Mr. FOLEY, from the committee of conference,
submitted the following
CONFERENCE REPORT
[To accompany S. 1941]
The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two
Houses on the amendment of the House to the bill (S. 1941) to amend
the Act of August 24, 1966, as amended, to assure humane treatment of
certain animals, and for other purposes, having met, after full and free
conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their
respective Houses as follows:
That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the amendments
of the House to the text and title of the bill and agree to the same with
an amendment as follows:
In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted by the House amend-
ments insert the following:
That this Act may be cited as the Animal Welfare Act-Amendments
of 1976.
SEC. 2. Section 1 of the Act of August 24, 1966 (80 Stat. 350, as
amended by the Animal Welfare Act of 1970, 84 Stat. 1560; 7 U.S.C.
2131-2155) is amended to read as follows:
. SEc. 1. (a) This Act may be cited as the 'Animal Welfare Act'.
(b) The Congress finds that animals and activities which are regu-
lated under this Act are either in interstate or foreign commerce or
substantially affect such commerce or the free flow thereof, and that
regulation of animals and -activities as provided in this Act is neces-
sary to prevent and eliminate burdens upon such commerce and to
effectively regulate such commerce, in order-
(1) to insure that animals intended for use in research facili-
ties or for exhibition purposes or for use as pets are provided
humane care and treatment;
(2) to assure the humane treatment of animals during trans-
portation in commerce; and
(3) to protect the owners of animals from the theft of their
animals by preventing the sale or use of animals which have been
stolen.
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