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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 320
108TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 108-172
CAPTIVE WILDLIFE SAFETY ACT OF 2003
OCTOBER 23, 2003.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. INHOFE, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 269]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred a bill (S. 269) to amend the Lacey Act Amendments of
1981 to further the conservation of certain wildlife species, having
considered the same, reports favorably thereon and recommends
that the bill, as amended, do pass.
GENERAL STATEMENT AND BACKGROUND
In the early 1900's, Congress recognized the need to support
States in protecting their game animals and birds by prohibiting
the interstate shipment of wildlife killed in violation of State or ter-
ritorial laws. Today this legislation is known as the Lacey Act,
named for its principal sponsor, U.S. Representative John Fletcher
Lacey, R-Iowa. Most significantly amended in 1981, the Lacey Act
makes it unlawful to import, export, transport, sell, buy, or possess
fish, wildlife, or plants taken, possessed, transported, or sold in vio-
lation of any Federal, State, foreign or Native American tribal law,
treaty, or regulation. The Act covers all fish and wildlife and their
parts or products and plants under the Conventions on Inter-
national Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora,
which makes trafficking in illegally acquired wildlife a Federal
crime.
However the Lacey Act does not explicitly address the problem
of the increasing trade in large cat species.
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