PACT Act

H.R. 99/S. 1508, the "Thin Blue Line Act," which would provide additional aggravating factors for the imposition of the death penalty for targeting and killing a law enforcement officer; H.R. 207, the Stop the Violence Act, which would establish a pilot program within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide grants to 10 trauma centers which have existing violence prevention or intervention programs designed to reduce re-admittance and reincarceration rates; H.R. 295, the End Banking for Human Traffickers Act, which would add the Secretary of the Treasury as a member of the Presidents Interagency Task Force; H.R. 449, the Pathways to Improving Homeland Security at the Local Level Act, which would direct the Assistant Secretary for State and Local Law Enforcement to produce an accessible annual catalog on the available DHS training, publications, programs, and services for their State, local and tribal partners; H.R. 489, the Strengthening Homeland Security, Intelligence and Essential Law Enforcement Departments (SHIELD) Act, which would make sure that Federal law enforcement officers required to report for duty even in the event that the Departments or agencies they serve have not been appropriated funds by Congress; H.R. 724/S. 479, the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, which would provide a criminal penalty for those who engage in animal crushing as well as for those who create or distribute such films; H.R. 816, the "Officer Sean Collier Campus Police Recognition Act," which would include campus police officer within the definition of "public safety officer" for purposes of death, disability, and education benefits under the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program; H.R. 838/S.265, the Threat Assessment, Prevention and Safety (TAPS) Act, which would provide resources to create a national strategy to identify, investigate, and mitigate possibly violent behavior through multi-disciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management; H.R. 1156, the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) and exempt qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms, to ensure that these officers are able to carry in the same venues as civilian concealed carry permit holders in areas like schools and national parks, as well as use public transportation and extends the exemption to magazine capacity and would allow active and retired law enforcement officers to access services at U.S. post offices, Social Security Administration offices or Veterans Affairs facilities; H.R. 1210, the Heroes Lesley Zerebney and Gilbert Vega First Responders Survivors Support Act, which would increase the amount of the death benefit provided by the Public Safety Officers benefits (PSOB) program as well as other benefits administered by the PSOB; H.R. 1325, the Protect and Serve Act, which would make it a Federal crime to target a law enforcement officer with an assault that results in serious bodily harm or death; H.R. 1327/S. 546, the Never Forget the Heroes: Permanent Authorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act, which would reauthorize the Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) through the Fiscal Year 2090, the same reauthorization Congress provided for the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 1387, the Criminal Organizations Narcotics, Finance, Resources, Operations and Network Targeting (CONFRONT) Act, which would codify an existing Executive Order and direct the Federal government to develop a national strategy to combat transnational criminal organizations; H.R. 1595, the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, which would allow U.S. banks and financial institutions to do business with companies trafficking in an illegal substance-marijuana; H.R. 1865, the National Law Enforcement Museum Commemorative Coin Act, which would direct the U.S. Mint to produce commemorative coins and divert some of the proceeds from their sale to support the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund; H.R. 1866, the Probation Officer Protection Act, which would amend section 3606 of Title 18, United States Code, to grant probation officers authority to arrest hostile third parties who obstruct or impede a probation officer in the performance of official duties; H.R. 2935/S. 1622, the Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl Analogues (SOFA) Act, which would amend current law to prevent criminal drug traffickers and manufacturers from evading Federal penalties by using analogue drugs which are just as lethal as fentanyl; H.R. 2070/S.954, the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act, which would establish a grant program to be administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in order to provide State and local law enforcement agencies with portable chemical screening devices to detect dangerous synthetic opioids and other drugs; H.R. 2329, the Law Enforcement Immersive Training Act, which would provide grants to State and local law enforcement agencies to access immersive, real-life, scenario-based training; H.R. 2368/S.998, the Supporting and Treating Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act, which would revive and expand programs designed to help officers and their families with stress reduction, suicide prevention and the promotion of mental health and wellness; H.R. 2379/S. 1231, the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Reauthorization Act, which would permanently reauthorizes the Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) program; H.R. 2560/S.1278, the Putting First Responders First Act, which would codify existing Internal Revenue Code regulations making service-connected disability compensation exempt from Federal income taxes H.R. 2812/S.1208, the Protecting Americas First Responders Act, which would update the PSOB disability determinations and the definitions making it more consistent with existing Federal law and greatly improve the ability of our injured and disabled officers to have their claims processed more fairly and more quickly; H.R. 2935/S. 1622, the Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl Analogues (SOFA) Act, which would amend current law to prevent criminal drug traffickers and manufacturers from evading Federal penalties by using analogue drugs which are just as lethal as fentanyl; H.R. 3735/S. 2746, the "Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Act," which would require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to provide information on suicide rates in law enforcement; H.R. 3990/S. 2750, the Operation Stonegarden Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize grants to State, local and tribal law enforcement agencies to improve border security; H.R. 4963, the Stop Importation and Manufacturing of Synthetic Analogues (SIMSA) Act, which would update the Controlled Substances Act by adding a Schedule A to allow for the inclusion of analogue and synthetic drugs similar in effect, but chemically different, to existing scheduled substances on a temporary basis; H.R. 5376/S. 3007, the Eliminated Network Distribution (END) of Child Exploitation Act, which would improve the effectiveness of the CyberTipline, which is administered by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; H.R. 6008, the "Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Law Enforcement Training Act," which would direct the Attorney General to develop crisis intervention training tools for use by law enforcement and other public safety officers when interacting with community members who have traumatic brain injury (TBI), another form of acquired brain injury, or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); H.R. 6509, the Public Safety Officer Pandemic Response Act, which would expand and codify the presumption that a death benefit claim for a COVID-19 related death, made through Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program, will be found by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to have contracted the disease in the line of duty in most cases as well as in disability claims; H.R. 7120, the "Justice in Policing Act," which proposes a series of police reforms; H.R. 7278/S. 3985, the "Just and Unifying Solutions to Invigorate Communities Everywhere Act," which proposes a series of police reforms; S. 400, the Blocking Deadly Fentanyl Imports Act, which would modernize the Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) by adding countries that are significant sources of illicit fentanyl and similar synthetic opioids to the annual Majors List"; S. 465, the First Responders Survivors Support Act, which would increase the amount of the death benefit provided by the Public Safety Officers Benefit (PSOB) program as well as other benefits administered by the PSOB; S. 495, the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; S. 820, the Debbie Smith Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act; S. 1208, the "Protecting America's First Responders Act," which would update the PSOB disability determinations and the definitions making it more consistent with existing Federal law and greatly improve the ability of our injured and disabled officers to have their claims processed more fairly and more quickly; S. 1231, the "A bill to reauthorize the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program," which would permanently reauthorize the bulletproof vest program; S. 1464, the "Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act," which would address an urgent need to provide our nations law enforcement officers with training to recognize and appropriately respond to behavioral crises caused, not by criminal activity, but by mental illness and substance abuse; S. 1883, the "Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act," which would update various statutes to better fight money laundering and cash smuggling another other illicit finance crimes; S. 1978, the Corporate Transparency Act, which would require the Federal government to collect beneficial ownership information for corporations and limited liability companies unless the State already collects this information; S. 2197, the Protecting Rights of Those Exploited by Coercive Trafficking (PROTECT) Act, which would amend existing human trafficking law to specify the use of drugs or illegal substances to cause a person to engage in a commercial sex act or forced labor constitutes a form of coercion; S. 2264, Erics Law, which would amend current law to allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of capital cases; S. 2323, the Screening All Fentanyl-Enhanced (SAFE) Mail Act, which would use technology developed by the Opioid Detection Challenge in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to be deployed within 5 years to scan 100% of all international mail and express cargo for fentanyl and other synthetic opioids; S. 2701, the Federal Initiative to Guarantee Health by Targeting (FIGHT) Fentanyl Act, which would permanently schedule fentanyl-related substances as Schedule 1 substances; S. 3398, the "Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, which would establish a National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention in an effort to combat the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet; S. 3607, the Safeguarding Americas First Responders Act, which would establish a presumption that a law enforcement or other public safety officers who dies from COVID-19 or complications related to COVID-19 did so because they sustained a personal injury in the line of duty, provided that the officer engaged in line of duty actions between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021; S. 3987, the "Strong communities Act," which would establish a grant program for local law enforcement agencies to assist in recruiting officers in their own community; S. 4036, the "Reforming Qualified Immunity Act," which would undermine the existing qualified immunity doctrine.

Client expense: $55,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, White House Office

Issues related to animal rights; S.479 / H.R.724 - Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act; H.R.4691 - Welfare of Our Friends Act of 2017 (WOOF! Act)

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported

H.R. 99/S. 1508, the "Thin Blue Line Act," which would provide additional aggravating factors for the imposition of the death penalty for targeting and killing a law enforcement officer; H.R. 207, the Stop the Violence Act, which would establish a pilot program within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide grants to 10 trauma centers which have existing violence prevention or intervention programs designed to reduce re-admittance and reincarceration rates; H.R. 295, the End Banking for Human Traffickers Act, which would add the Secretary of the Treasury as a member of the Presidents Interagency Task Force; H.R. 449, the Pathways to Improving Homeland Security at the Local Level Act, which would direct the Assistant Secretary for State and Local Law Enforcement to produce an accessible annual catalog on the available DHS training, publications, programs, and services for their State, local and tribal partners; H.R. 489, the Strengthening Homeland Security, Intelligence and Essential Law Enforcement Departments (SHIELD) Act, which would make sure that Federal law enforcement officers required to report for duty even in the event that the Departments or agencies they serve have not been appropriated funds by Congress; H.R. 724/S. 479, the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, which would provide a criminal penalty for those who engage in animal crushing as well as for those who create or distribute such films; H.R. 816, the "Officer Sean Collier Campus Police Recognition Act," which would include campus police officer within the definition of "public safety officer" for purposes of death, disability, and education benefits under the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program; H.R. 838/S.265, the Threat Assessment, Prevention and Safety (TAPS) Act, which would provide resources to create a national strategy to identify, investigate, and mitigate possibly violent behavior through multi-disciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management; H.R. 1156, the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) and exempt qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms, to ensure that these officers are able to carry in the same venues as civilian concealed carry permit holders in areas like schools and national parks, as well as use public transportation and extends the exemption to magazine capacity and would allow active and retired law enforcement officers to access services at U.S. post offices, Social Security Administration offices or Veterans Affairs facilities; H.R. 1210, the Heroes Lesley Zerebney and Gilbert Vega First Responders Survivors Support Act, which would increase the amount of the death benefit provided by the Public Safety Officers benefits (PSOB) program as well as other benefits administered by the PSOB; H.R. 1325, the Protect and Serve Act, which would make it a Federal crime to target a law enforcement officer with an assault that results in serious bodily harm or death; H.R. 1327/S. 546, the Never Forget the Heroes: Permanent Authorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act, which would reauthorize the Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) through the Fiscal Year 2090, the same reauthorization Congress provided for the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 1387, the Criminal Organizations Narcotics, Finance, Resources, Operations and Network Targeting (CONFRONT) Act, which would codify an existing Executive Order and direct the Federal government to develop a national strategy to combat transnational criminal organizations; H.R. 1595, the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, which would allow U.S. banks and financial institutions to do business with companies trafficking in an illegal substance-marijuana; H.R. 1865, the National Law Enforcement Museum Commemorative Coin Act, which would direct the U.S. Mint to produce commemorative coins and divert some of the proceeds from their sale to support the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund; H.R. 1866, the Probation Officer Protection Act, which would amend section 3606 of Title 18, United States Code, to grant probation officers authority to arrest hostile third parties who obstruct or impede a probation officer in the performance of official duties; S. 465, the First Responders Survivors Support Act, which would increase the amount of the death benefit provided by the Public Safety Officers Benefit (PSOB) program as well as other benefits administered by the PSOB; H.R. 2070/S.954, the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act, which would establish a grant program to be administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in order to provide State and local law enforcement agencies with portable chemical screening devices to detect dangerous synthetic opioids and other drugs; H.R. 2329, the Law Enforcement Immersive Training Act, which would provide grants to State and local law enforcement agencies to access immersive, real-life, scenario-based training; H.R. 2368/S.998, the Supporting and Treating Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act, which would revive and expand programs designed to help officers and their families with stress reduction, suicide prevention and the promotion of mental health and wellness; H.R. 2379/S. 1231, the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Reauthorization Act, which would permanently reauthorizes the Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) program; H.R. 2560/S.1278, the Putting First Responders First Act, which would codify existing Internal Revenue Code regulations making service-connected disability compensation exempt from Federal income taxes H.R. 2812/S.1208, the Protecting Americas First Responders Act, which would update the PSOB disability determinations and the definitions making it more consistent with existing Federal law and greatly improve the ability of our injured and disabled officers to have their claims processed more fairly and more quickly; H.R. 2935, the Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl Analogues (SOFA) Act, which would amend current law to prevent criminal drug traffickers and manufacturers from evading Federal penalties by using analogue drugs which are just as lethal as fentanyl; H.R. 3735/S. 2746, the "Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Act," which would require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to provide information on suicide rates in law enforcement; H.R. 3990/S. 2750, the Operation Stonegarden Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize grants to State, local and tribal law enforcement agencies to improve border security; H.R. 4963, the Stop Importation and Manufacturing of Synthetic Analogues (SIMSA) Act, which would update the Controlled Substances Act by adding a Schedule A to allow for the inclusion of analogue and synthetic drugs similar in effect, but chemically different, to existing scheduled substances on a temporary basis; H.R. 5376/S. 3007, the Eliminated Network Distribution (END) of Child Exploitation Act, which would improve the effectiveness of the CyberTipline, which is administered by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; H.R. 6008, the "Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Law Enforcement Training Act," which would direct the Attorney General to develop crisis intervention training tools for use by law enforcement and other public safety officers when interacting with community members who have traumatic brain injury (TBI), another form of acquired brain injury, or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); H.R. 6509 (Nadler, D-NY), the Public Safety Officer Pandemic Response Act, which would expand and codify the presumption that a death benefit claim for a COVID-19 related death, made through Public Safety Officers Benefits (PSOB) program, will be found by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to have contracted the disease in the line of duty in most cases as well as in disability claims; S. 400, the Blocking Deadly Fentanyl Imports Act, which would modernize the Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) by adding countries that are significant sources of illicit fentanyl and similar synthetic opioids to the annual Majors List"; S. 495, the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; S. 820, the Debbie Smith Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act; S. 1208, the "Protecting America's First Responders Act," which would update the PSOB disability determinations and the definitions making it more consistent with existing Federal law and greatly improve the ability of our injured and disabled officers to have their claims processed more fairly and more quickly; S. 1231, the "A bill to reauthorize the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program," which would permanently reauthorize the bulletproof vest program; S. 1464, the "Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act," which would address an urgent need to provide our nations law enforcement officers with training to recognize and appropriately respond to behavioral crises caused, not by criminal activity, but by mental illness and substance abuse; S. 1622, the Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl Analogues (SOFA) Act, which would amend current law to prevent criminal drug traffickers and manufacturers from evading Federal penalties by using analogue drugs which are just as lethal as fentanyl; S. 1883, the "Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act," which would update various statutes to better fight money laundering and cash smuggling another other illicit finance crimes; S. 1978, the Corporate Transparency Act, which would require the Federal government to collect beneficial ownership information for corporations and limited liability companies unless the State already collects this information; S. 2197, the Protecting Rights of Those Exploited by Coercive Trafficking (PROTECT) Act, which would amend existing human trafficking law to specify the use of drugs or illegal substances to cause a person to engage in a commercial sex act or forced labor constitutes a form of coercion; S. 2264, Erics Law, which would amend current law to allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of capital cases; S. 2323, the Screening All Fentanyl-Enhanced (SAFE) Mail Act, which would use technology developed by the Opioid Detection Challenge in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to be deployed within 5 years to scan 100% of all international mail and express cargo for fentanyl and other synthetic opioids; S. 2701, the Federal Initiative to Guarantee Health by Targeting (FIGHT) Fentanyl Act, which would permanently schedule fentanyl-related substances as Schedule 1 substances; S. 3398, the "Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, which would establish a National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention in an effort to combat the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet; and S. 3607, the Safeguarding Americas First Responders Act, which would establish a presumption that a law enforcement or other public safety officers who dies from COVID-19 or complications related to COVID-19 did so because they sustained a personal injury in the line of duty, provided that the officer engaged in line of duty actions between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021.

Issues related to animal rights; S.479 / H.R.724 - Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act; H.R.4691 - Welfare of Our Friends Act of 2017 (WOOF! Act)

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported

H.R. 693/S. 1007 Prevent All Soring Tactics Act; H.R. 724/S. 479 Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act; H.R. 1157/S. 1455 Horse Protection Amendments Act; H.R. 2651/S. 1820 Horseracing Integrity Act of 2017; H.R. 1622/S. 708 Kittens in Traumatic Testing Ends Now Act; H.R. 961 The Safeguard American Food Exports Act; Animal Welfare Act Implementation; Dog importation; Chronic Wasting Disease legislation

Client expense: $250,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE

United States House of Representatives and United States Senate H.R. 724/S. 479, Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act S. 1590, Rescuing Animals With Rewards Act S. 1007, Prevent All Soring Tactics Act H.R. 737/S. 877, Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act H.R. 1380, Big Cat Public Safety Act H.R. 5141/S. 2886, Humane Cosmetics Act H.R. 961/S. 2006, Safeguard American Food Exports Act H.R. 1754/S. 1820, Horseracing Integrity Act H.R. 1042, Providing Responsible Emergency Plans for Animals at Risk of Emerging Disasters Act S. 2453/H.R. 1568, SAVE Right Whales Act H.R. 1002, Welfare of Our Friends (WOOF) Act H.R. 2442, Puppy Protection Act H.R. 729, Coastal and Great Lakes Community Enhancement Act, and Mike Johnson amendment H.R. 4804, Prohibiting Threatened and Endangered Creature Trophies Act H. Con. Res. 71/S. Con. Res. 29, dog and cat meat trade resolution Trophy hunting Wildlife trafficking Grizzly bear conservation Chimpanzees held by the National Institutes of Health National School Lunch Program Veterinary student loan deferrals Rulemaking and Federal Government Decisions and Policies U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Act (ESA) regulations AWA enforcement Animal Cell Culture Technology Policies Implementation of 2018 Farm Bill Pet and Women Safety Act (USDA, HUD, HHS, DOJ) Parity in Animal Cruelty Enforcement Act (USDA) Dog and Cat Meat Trade Prohibition Act (USDA) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) animal testing National Institutes of Health (NIH) chimpanzees EPA M-44 pesticide USDA privacy notice proposal and enforcement of Animal Welfare Act and Horse Protection Act USDAs AWA licensing and dog dealer standards Department of Transportation Traveling with Service Animals guidance and notice of proposed rulemaking BLMs Wild Horse and Burro Program

H.R. 693/S. 1007 Prevent All Soring Tactics Act; H.R. 724/S. 479 Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act; H.R. 1157/S. 1455 Horse Protection Amendments Act; H.R. 2651/S. 1820 Horseracing Integrity Act of 2017; H.R. 1622/S. 708 Kittens in Traumatic Testing Ends Now Act; H.R. 961 The Safeguard American Food Exports Act; Animal Welfare Act Implementation; Dog importation; Chronic Wasting Disease legislation

Client expense: $250,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE

Monitor legislative activity on animal welfare and support the Prevent Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act (H.R. 724, S. 749), and the Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act (S. 877).

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, White House Office

Issues related to animal rights; S.479 / H.R.724 - Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act.

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

Reimbursement for CAR-T therapy S479/HR 724, PACT Act

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $20,000

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

Enforcement of the Horse Protection Act of 1970 Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act - H.R. 724 / S. 479 U.S. Senator Joseph D. Tydings Memorial Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act of 2019 - H.R. 693 Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act (S. 1007) Safeguard American Food Exports Act (SAFE) of 2019 - H.R. 961 Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act of 2019 - H.R. 737 / S. 877 Horseracing Integrity Act - H.R. 1754; S. 1820 Welfare of Our Friends (WOOF) Act of 2019 - H.R. 1002 Opportunities for Fairness in Farming (OFF) Act - S. 935 (not yet introduced in House) Providing Responsible Emergency Plans for Animals at Risk of Emerging Disasters (PREPARED) Act - H.R. 1042 Big Cat Public Safety Act - H.R. 1380; S. 2561 Wildlife Conservation and Anti-Trafficking Act of 2019 - H.R. 864 Bird Safe Buildings Act - H.R. 919 Bear Protection Act - H.R. 2264 (not yet introduced in Senate) Albatross and Petrel Conservation Act - H.R. 1305 Rescuing Animals with Rewards (RAWR) Act - H.R. 97; S. 1590 Puppy Protection Act (H.R. 2422) FY20 Appropriations Bills, including Interior Appropriations (DOI), Agriculture Appropriations (USDA), and Criminal Justice Appropriations (DOJ) - HR 3055 S.2522 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 S.2580 - Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 S.2584 - Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 H.R. 1189 & H.R. 5436 regarding animal fighting H.R. 2863, S. 2121 Traveling Exotic Animal and Public Safety Protection Act H.R. 1776, S. 2562 Captive Primate Safety Act H.R. 1568, S. 2453 Scientific Assistance for Very Endangered North Atlantic Right Whales Act. S. 2006, John Stringer Rainey SAFE Act. Wolf Delisting Regulation Docket No. FWS-HQ-ES-2018-0097 Discussions of the following bills not yet introduced by the House or Senate: Greyhound Racing Elimination Act LEAD Act PIGS (Gestation Crate Ban) Act Organic Standards Legislation Best Practices Act Proposed legislation to create an Animal Crimes Unit at the Department of Justice Honesty in Pet Sales Act

H.R. 99/S. 1508, the "Thin Blue Line Act," which would provide additional aggravating factors for the imposition of the death penalty for targeting and killing a law enforcement officer; H.R. 207, the Stop the Violence Act, which would establish a pilot program within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide grants to 10 trauma centers which have existing violence prevention or intervention programs designed to reduce re-admittance and reincarceration rates; H.R. 295, the End Banking for Human Traffickers Act, which would add the Secretary of the Treasury as a member of the Presidents Interagency Task Force; H.R. 449, the Pathways to Improving Homeland Security at the Local Level Act, which would direct the Assistant Secretary for State and Local Law Enforcement to produce an accessible annual catalog on the available DHS training, publications, programs, and services for their State, local and tribal partners; H.R. 489, the Strengthening Homeland Security, Intelligence and Essential Law Enforcement Departments (SHIELD) Act, which would make sure that Federal law enforcement officers required to report for duty even in the event that the Departments or agencies they serve have not been appropriated funds by Congress; H.R. 724/S. 479, the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, which would provide a criminal penalty for those who engage in animal crushing as well as for those who create or distribute such films; H.R. 777/S. 820, the Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act; H.R. 816, the "Officer Sean Collier Campus Police Recognition Act," which would include campus police officer within the definition of "public safety officer" for purposes of death, disability, and education benefits under the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program; H.R. 838/S.265, the Threat Assessment, Prevention and Safety (TAPS) Act, which would provide resources to create a national strategy to identify, investigate, and mitigate possibly violent behavior through multi-disciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management; H.R. 1156, the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) and exempt qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms, to ensure that these officers are able to carry in the same venues as civilian concealed carry permit holders in areas like schools and national parks, as well as use public transportation and extends the exemption to magazine capacity and would allow active and retired law enforcement officers to access services at U.S. post offices, Social Security Administration offices or Veterans Affairs facilities; H.R. 1210, the Heroes Lesley Zerebney and Gilbert Vega First Responders Survivors Support Act, which would increase the amount of the death benefit provided by the Public Safety Officers benefits (PSOB) program as well as other benefits administered by the PSOB; H.R. 1325, the Protect and Serve Act, which would make it a Federal crime to target a law enforcement officer with an assault that results in serious bodily harm or death; H.R. 1327/S. 546, the Never Forget the Heroes: Permanent Authorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act, which would reauthorize the Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) through the Fiscal Year 2090, the same reauthorization Congress provided for the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 1387, the Criminal Organizations Narcotics, Finance, Resources, Operations and Network Targeting (CONFRONT) Act, which would codify an existing Executive Order and direct the Federal government to develop a national strategy to combat transnational criminal organizations; H.R. 1595, the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, which would allow U.S. banks and financial institutions to do business with companies trafficking in an illegal substance-marijuana; H.R. 1865, the National Law Enforcement Museum Commemorative Coin Act, which would direct the U.S. Mint to produce commemorative coins and divert some of the proceeds from their sale to support the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund; H.R. 1866, the Probation Officer Protection Act, which would amend section 3606 of Title 18, United States Code, to grant probation officers authority to arrest hostile third parties who obstruct or impede a probation officer in the performance of official duties; S. 465, the First Responders Survivors Support Act, which would increase the amount of the death benefit provided by the Public Safety Officers Benefit (PSOB) program as well as other benefits administered by the PSOB; H.R. 2070/S.954, the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act, which would establish a grant program to be administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in order to provide State and local law enforcement agencies with portable chemical screening devices to detect dangerous synthetic opioids and other drugs; H.R. 2329, the Law Enforcement Immersive Training Act, which would provide grants to State and local law enforcement agencies to access immersive, real-life, scenario-based training; H.R. 2368/S.998, the Supporting and Treating Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act, which would revive and expand programs designed to help officers and their families with stress reduction, suicide prevention and the promotion of mental health and wellness; H.R. 2379/S. 1231, the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Reauthorization Act, which would permanently reauthorizes the Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) program; H.R. 2560/S.1278, the Putting First Responders First Act, which would codify existing Internal Revenue Code regulations making service-connected disability compensation exempt from Federal income taxes H.R. 2812/S.1208, the Protecting Americas First Responders Act, which would update the PSOB disability determinations and the definitions making it more consistent with existing Federal law and greatly improve the ability of our injured and disabled officers to have their claims processed more fairly and more quickly; H.R. 3735, the "Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Act," which would require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to provide information on suicide rates in law enforcement; H.R. 3990/S. 2750, the Operation Stonegarden Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize grants to State, local and tribal law enforcement agencies to improve border security; H.R. 4963, the Stop Importation and Manufacturing of Synthetic Analogues (SIMSA) Act, which would update the Controlled Substances Act by adding a Schedule A to allow for the inclusion of analogue and synthetic drugs similar in effect, but chemically different, to existing scheduled substances on a temporary basis; H.R. 5376/S. 3007, the Eliminated Network Distribution (END) of Child Exploitation Act, which would improve the effectiveness of the CyberTipline, which is administered by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; S. 495, the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; S. 820, the Debbie Smith Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act; S. 1231, the "A bill to reauthorize the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program," which would permanently reauthorize the bulletproof vest program; S. 1883, the "Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act," which would update various statutes to better fight money laundering and cash smuggling another other illicit finance crimes; S. 1978, the Corporate Transparency Act, which would require the Federal government to collect beneficial ownership information for corporations and limited liability companies unless the State already collects this information; S. 2264, Erics Law, which would amend current law to allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of capital cases; S. 2323, the Screening All Fentanyl-Enhanced (SAFE) Mail Act, which would use technology developed by the Opioid Detection Challenge in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to be deployed within 5 years to scan 100% of all international mail and express cargo for fentanyl and other synthetic opioids; and S. 2701, the Federal Initiative to Guarantee Health by Targeting (FIGHT) Fentanyl Act, which would permanently schedule fentanyl-related substances as Schedule 1 substances.

H.R. 99/S. 1508, the "Thin Blue Line Act," which would provide additional aggravating factors for the imposition of the death penalty for targeting and killing a law enforcement officer; H.R. 207, the Stop the Violence Act, which would establish a pilot program within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide grants to 10 trauma centers which have existing violence prevention or intervention programs designed to reduce re-admittance and reincarceration rates; H.R. 295, the End Banking for Human Traffickers Act, which would add the Secretary of the Treasury as a member of the Presidents Interagency Task Force; H.R. 449, the Pathways to Improving Homeland Security at the Local Level Act, which would direct the Assistant Secretary for State and Local Law Enforcement to produce an accessible annual catalog on the available DHS training, publications, programs, and services for their State, local and tribal partners; H.R. 489, the Strengthening Homeland Security, Intelligence and Essential Law Enforcement Departments (SHIELD) Act, which would make sure that Federal law enforcement officers required to report for duty even in the event that the Departments or agencies they serve have not been appropriated funds by Congress; H.R. 724/S. 479, the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, which would provide a criminal penalty for those who engage in animal crushing as well as for those who create or distribute such films; H.R. 816, the "Officer Sean Collier Campus Police Recognition Act," which would include campus police officer within the definition of "public safety officer" for purposes of death, disability, and education benefits under the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program; H.R. 838/S.265, the Threat Assessment, Prevention and Safety (TAPS) Act, which would provide resources to create a national strategy to identify, investigate, and mitigate possibly violent behavior through multi-disciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management; H.R. 1156, the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA), which would exempt qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms, to ensure that these officers are able to carry in the same venues as civilian concealed carry permit holders in areas like schools and national parks, as well as use public transportation and extends the exemption to magazine capacity and would allow active and retired law enforcement officers to access services at U.S. post offices, Social Security Administration offices or Veterans Affairs facilities; H.R. 1210, the Heroes Lesley Zerebney and Gilbert Vega First Responders Survivors Support Act, which would increase the amount of the death benefit provided by the Public Safety Officers benefits (PSOB) program as well as other benefits administered by the PSOB; H.R. 1325, the Protect and Serve Act, which would make it a Federal crime to target a law enforcement officer with an assault that results in serious bodily harm or death; H.R. 1327/S. 546, the Never Forget the Heroes: Permanent Authorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act, which would reauthorize the Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) through the Fiscal Year 2090, the same reauthorization Congress provided for the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 1387, the Criminal Organizations Narcotics, Finance, Resources, Operations and Network Targeting (CONFRONT) Act, which would codify an existing Executive Order and direct the Federal government to develop a national strategy to combat transnational criminal organizations; H.R. 1595, the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, which would allow U.S. banks and financial institutions to do business with companies trafficking in an illegal substance-marijuana; H.R. 1865, the National Law Enforcement Museum Commemorative Coin Act, which would direct the U.S. Mint to produce commemorative coins and divert some of the proceeds from their sale to support the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund; H.R. 1866, the Probation Officer Protection Act, which would amend section 3606 of Title 18, United States Code, to grant probation officers authority to arrest hostile third parties who obstruct or impede a probation officer in the performance of official duties; S. 456, the First Responders Survivors Support Act, which would increase the amount of the death benefit provided by the Public Safety Officers Benefit (PSOB) program as well as other benefits administered by the PSOB; H.R. 2070/S.954, the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act, which would establish a grant program to be administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in order to provide State and local law enforcement agencies with portable chemical screening devices to detect dangerous synthetic opioids and other drugs; H.R. 2329, the Law Enforcement Immersive Training Act, which would provide grants to State and local law enforcement agencies to access immersive, real-life, scenario-based training; H.R. 2368/S.998, the Supporting and Treating Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act, which would revive and expand programs designed to help officers and their families with stress reduction, suicide prevention and the promotion of mental health and wellness; H.R. 2379/S. 1231, the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Reauthorization Act, which would permanently reauthorizes the Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) program; H.R. 2560/S.1278, the Putting First Responders First Act, which would codify existing Internal Revenue Code regulations making service-connected disability compensation exempt from Federal income taxes H.R. 2812/S.1208, the Protecting Americas First Responders Act, which would update the PSOB disability determinations and the definitions making it more consistent with existing Federal law and greatly improve the ability of our injured and disabled officers to have their claims processed more fairly and more quickly; H.R. 3735, the "Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Act," which would require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to provide information on suicide rates in law enforcement; S. 495, the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; S. 820, the Debbie Smith Act, which would reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act; S. 1231, the "A bill to reauthorize the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program," which would permanently reauthorize the bulletproof vest program; S. 1883, the "Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act," which would update various statutes to better fight money laundering and cash smuggling another other illicit finance crimes; S. 1978, the Corporate Transparency Act, which would require the Federal government to collect beneficial ownership information for corporations and limited liability companies unless the State already collects this information; S. 2264, Erics Law, which would amend current law to allow Federal prosecutors to impanel a second jury for the sentencing phase of capital cases; S. 2323, the Screening All Fentanyl-Enhanced (SAFE) Mail Act, which would use technology developed by the Opioid Detection Challenge in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to be deployed within 5 years to scan 100% of all international mail and express cargo for fentanyl and other synthetic opioids.

United States House of Representatives and United States Senate H.R. 3164/S. ---- Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill H.R. 3052/S. ---- Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill H.R. 3055/S. ---- Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations bill H.R. 1380 Big Cat Public Safety Act H.R. 1754/S. 1820 Horseracing Integrity Act H.R. 724/S. 479 Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act H.R. 693/S. 1007 Prevent All Soring Tactics Act H.R. 961/S. 2006 Safeguard American Food Exports Act H.R. 737/S. 877 Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act H.R. 1002 Welfare of Our Friends Act H.R. 2442- Puppy Protection Act S. 831 Gray Wolf State Management Act H.R. 864 Wildlife Conservation and Anti-Trafficking Act H.R. 97/S. 1590 Rescuing Animals with Rewards (RAWR) Act S. 804/H.R. 1806 Empowering Rural Economies Through Alaska Native Sustainable Arts and Handicrafts Act H.R. 1568 SAVE Right Whales Act H.R. 1042 Providing Responsible Emergency Plans for Animals at Risk of Emerging Disasters (PREPARED) Act H.R. 2850 Humane Retirement Act H.R. ----/S. ---- Humane Cosmetics Act H.R. 919 Bird-Safe Buildings Act H.R. 1400 Horse Transportation Safety Act H.R. 2245 Conserving Ecosystems by Ceasing the Importation of Large (CECIL) Animal Trophies Act H.R. ---- Prohibiting Threatened and Endangered Creatures Trophies (ProTECT) Act H.R. 788 - Sustainable Shark Fisheries and Trade Act H.R. 1776 - Captive Primate Safety Act H.R. 1446/S. 652 - Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Reauthorization Act H.R. 2532 Tribal Heritage and Grizzly Bear Protection Act H.R. 4348/ S. 2491 the Protect America's Wildlife and Fish In Need of Conservation Act of 2019 NOT YET INTRODUCED - Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act NOT YET INTRODUCED - Humane Cosmetics Act NOT YET INTRODUCED/NO SHORT TITLE YET - To require the recipient of explosive detection canines under antiterrorism assistance authorities to have a written agreement relating to the health and welfare of such canines, and for other purposes. H.R.2685 - Wild Bird Conservation Reauthorization Act Rulemaking and Federal Government Decisions and Policies Proposed revisions to the Endangered Species Act regulations Animal Welfare Act enforcement Trophy hunting import permits Horse Protection Act Rule and enforcement Animal Welfare Act and Horse Protection Act online records Enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act disaster planning rule Revisions to the Animal Welfare Act licensing standards and dog dealer standards Implementation of the Pet and Women Safety Act language in the 2018 Farm Bill Wild Horse and Burro policy Preventing the slaughter of equines in the United States Policy on promoting the development and implementation of using nonanimal methods for testing Reintroduction of gray wolves on Isle Royale Preventing egregious methods of hunting on National Park Service New findings under the Endangered Species Act Protecting listing status of gray wolves in the lower 48 Rulemakings related to conservation of marine mammals Offshore energy projects impacting marine mammals Development of regulations related to cell-based meat technologies Regulations on swine slaughter modernization North Atlantic right whale regulatory revisions International Wildlife Conservation Council Hunting and Shooting Sports Conservation Council Protecting listing status of grizzly bears in the GYE and Northern Cascades Listing Giraffes under the Endangered Species Act

Monitor legislative activity on animal welfare and support the Prevent Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (H.R. 724), Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act (S. 877), and the Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act (S. 1007).

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

Enforcement of the Horse Protection Act of 1970 Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act - H.R. 724 / S. 479 U.S. Senator Joseph D. Tydings Memorial Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act of 2019 - H.R. 693 Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act (S. 1007) Safeguard American Food Exports Act (SAFE) of 2019 - H.R. 961 (not yet introduced in Senate) Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act of 2019 - H.R. 737 / S. 877 Horseracing Integrity Act - H.R. 1754; S. 1820 Welfare of Our Friends (WOOF) Act of 2019 - H.R. 1002 Opportunities for Fairness in Farming (OFF) Act - S. 935 (not yet introduced in House) Providing Responsible Emergency Plans for Animals at Risk of Emerging Disasters (PREPARED) Act - H.R. 1042 Big Cat Public Safety Act - H.R. 1380 Wildlife Conservation and Anti-Trafficking Act of 2019 - H.R. 864 Bird Safe Buildings Act - H.R. 919 Bear Protection Act - H.R. 2264 (not yet introduced in Senate) Albatross and Petrel Conservation Act - H.R. 1305 Rescuing Animals with Rewards (RAWR) Act - H.R. 97; S. 1590 Puppy Protection Act (H.R. 2422) FY20 Appropriations Bills, including Interior Appropriations (DOI), Agriculture Appropriations (USDA), and Criminal Justice Appropriations (DOJ) - HR 3055 S.2522 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 S.2580 - Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 S.2584 - Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 Wolf Delisting Regulation Docket No. FWS-HQ-ES-2018-0097 Discussions of the following bills not yet introduced by the House or Senate: Greyhound Racing Elimination Act LEAD Act PIGS (Gestation Crate Ban) Act Organic Standards Legislation TEASPA Best Practices Act Captive Primate Safety Act

Client expense: $40,000 · Firm income: Not reported

H.R. 693/S. 1007 Prevent All Soring Tactics H.R. 724/S. 479 Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act H.R. 1157/S. 1455 Horse Protection Amendments Act H.R. 2651/S. 1820 Horseracing Integrity Act of 2017 H.R. 1622/S. 708 Kittens in Traumatic Testing Ends Now Act H.R. 961, The Safeguard American Food Exports Act; Animal Welfare Act implementation; Dog importation H.R. 1400 Horse Transportation Safety Act H.R. 2 Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018; USDA implementation of all provisions for inclusion related to animal health, animal agriculture, animal welfare and veterinary medicine

Client expense: $200,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

Reimbursement for CAR-T therapy S479/HR 724, PACT Act

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $20,000

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

Monitor legislative activity on animal welfare and support the Prevent Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (H.R. 724) and Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act (S. 877).

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000

United States House of Representatives and United States Senate H.R. 3164/S. ---- Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill H.R. 3052/S. ---- Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill H.R. 3055/S. ---- Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations bill H.R. 2968 Defense Appropriations bill H.R. 2740 Minibus 1 H.R. 3055 Minibus 2 H.R. 1380 Big Cat Public Safety Act H.R. 1754 Horseracing Integrity Act H.R. 724/S. 479 Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act H.R. 693/S. 1007 Prevent All Soring Tactics Act H.R. 961/S. 2006 Safeguard American Food Exports Act H.R. 737/S. 877 Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act H.R. 1002 Welfare of Our Friends Act H.R. 2442- Puppy Protection Act S. 831 Gray Wolf State Management Act H.R. 1155 Preventing Unkind and Painful Procedures and Experiments on Respected Species (PUPPERS) Act H.R. 864 Wildlife Conservation and Anti-Trafficking Act H.R. 97 Rescuing Animals with Rewards (RAWR) Act S. 804/H.R. 1806 Empowering Rural Economies Through Alaska Native Sustainable Arts and Handicrafts Act H.R. 1568 SAVE Right Whales Act H.R. 1042 Providing Responsible Emergency Plans for Animals at Risk of Emerging Disasters (PREPARED) Act H.R. 2850 Humane Retirement Act H.R. ----/S. ---- Humane Cosmetics Act H.R. 919 Bird-Safe Buildings Act H.R. 1228/S. 513 Help Extract Animals from Red Tape (HEART) Act H.R. 1209 Humane and Existing Alternatives in Research and Testing Sciences (HEARTS) Act H.R. 1400 Horse Transportation Safety Act H.R. 651 Charitable Giving Tax Deduction Act H.R. 689 Pet Safety and Protection Act H.R. 2245 Conserving Ecosystems by Ceasing the Importation of Large (CECIL) Animal Trophies Act H.R. ---- Prohibiting Threatened and Endangered Creatures Trophies (ProTECT) Act H.R. 788 - Sustainable Shark Fisheries and Trade Act H.R. 1776 - Captive Primate Safety Act H.R. 1446/S. 652 - Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Reauthorization Act H.R. 2532 Tribal Heritage and Grizzly Bear Protection Act H.R. 1622/S. 708 Kittens In Traumatic Testing Ends Now (KITTEN) Act Rulemaking and Federal Government Decisions and Policies Proposed revisions to the Endangered Species Act regulations Animal Welfare Act enforcement Trophy hunting import permits Horse Protection Act Rule and enforcement Animal Welfare Act and Horse Protection Act online records Enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act disaster planning rule Revisions to the Animal Welfare Act licensing standards and dog dealer standards Implementation of the Pet and Women Safety Act language in the 2018 Farm Bill Wild Horse and Burro policy Preventing the slaughter of equines in the United States Policy on promoting the development and implementation of using nonanimal methods for testing Reintroduction of gray wolves on Isle Royale Preventing egregious methods of hunting on National Park Service and Fish and Wildlife lands New findings under the Endangered Species Act Rulemakings related to conservation of marine mammals International Wildlife Conservation Council Hunting and Shooting Sports Conservation Council Offshore energy projects impacting marine mammals Protecting listing status of grizzly bears in the GYE and Northern Cascades Protecting listing status of gray wolves in the lower 48 Listing Giraffes under the Endangered Species Act Defense Department use of live animals in testing and trauma training

Enforcement of the Horse Protection Act of 1970 Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act - H.R. 724 / S. 479 U.S. Senator Joseph D. Tydings Memorial Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act of 2019 - H.R. 693 Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act (S. 1007) Safeguard American Food Exports Act (SAFE) of 2019 - H.R. 961 (not yet introduced in Senate) Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act of 2019 - H.R. 737 / S. 877 Horseracing Integrity Act - H.R. 1754; S. 1820 Welfare of Our Friends (WOOF) Act of 2019 - H.R. 1002 Opportunities for Fairness in Farming (OFF) Act - S. 935 (not yet introduced in House) Providing Responsible Emergency Plans for Animals at Risk of Emerging Disasters (PREPARED) Act - H.R. 1042 Big Cat Public Safety Act - H.R. 1380 Wildlife Conservation and Anti-Trafficking Act of 2019 - H.R. 864 Bird Safe Buildings Act - H.R. 919 Bear Protection Act - H.R. 2264 (not yet introduced in Senate) Albatross and Petrel Conservation Act - H.R. 1305 Rescuing Animals with Rewards (RAWR) Act - H.R. 97 FY20 Appropriations Bills, including Interior Appropriations (DOI), Agriculture Appropriations (USDA), and Criminal Justice Appropriations (DOJ) - HR 3055 (not yet introduced in Senate) Wolf Delisting Regulation Docket No. FWS-HQ-ES-2018-0097 Discussions of the following bills not yet introduced by the House or Senate: Greyhound Racing Elimination Act LEAD Act PIGS (Gestation Crate Ban) Act Organic Standards Legislation Puppy Protection Act TEASPA Best Practices Act Captive Primate Safety Act

Client expense: $40,000 · Firm income: Not reported

H.R. 99/S. 1508, the "Thin Blue Line Act," which would provide additional aggravating factors for the imposition of the death penalty for targeting and killing a law enforcement officer; H.R. 207, the Stop the Violence Act, which would establish a pilot program within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide grants to 10 trauma centers which have existing violence prevention or intervention programs designed to reduce re-admittance and reincarceration rates; H.R. 295, the End Banking for Human Traffickers Act, which would add the Secretary of the Treasury as a member of the Presidents Interagency Task Force; H.R. 449, the Pathways to Improving Homeland Security at the Local Level Act, which would direct the Assistant Secretary for State and Local Law Enforcement to produce an accessible annual catalog on the available DHS training, publications, programs, and services for their State, local and tribal partners; H.R. 489, the Strengthening Homeland Security, Intelligence and Essential Law Enforcement Departments (SHIELD) Act, which would make sure that Federal law enforcement officers required to report for duty even in the event that the Departments or agencies they serve have not been appropriated funds by Congress; H.R. 724/S. 479, the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, which would provide a criminal penalty for those who engage in animal crushing as well as for those who create or distribute such films; H.R. 816, the "Officer Sean Collier Campus Police Recognition Act," which would include campus police officer within the definition of "public safety officer" for purposes of death, disability, and education benefits under the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program; H.R. 838/S.265, the Threat Assessment, Prevention and Safety (TAPS) Act, which would provide resources to create a national strategy to identify, investigate, and mitigate possibly violent behavior through multi-disciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management; H.R. 1156, the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA), which exempts qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms, to ensure that these officers are able to carry in the same venues as civilian concealed carry permit holders in areas like schools and national parks, as well as use public transportation and extends the exemption to magazine capacity and would allow active and retired law enforcement officers to access services at U.S. post offices, Social Security Administration offices or Veterans Affairs facilities; H.R. 1210, the Heroes Lesley Zerebney and Gilbert Vega First Responders Survivors Support Act, which would increase the amount of the death benefit provided by the Public Safety Officers benefits (PSOB) program as well as other benefits administered by the PSOB; H.R. 1325, the Protect and Serve Act, which would make it a Federal crime to target a law enforcement officer with an assault that results in serious bodily harm or death; H.R. 1327/S. 546, the Never Forget the Heroes: Permanent Authorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act, which would reauthorize the Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) through the Fiscal Year 2090, the same reauthorization Congress provided for the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 1387, the Criminal Organizations Narcotics, Finance, Resources, Operations and Network Targeting (CONFRONT) Act, which would codify an existing Executive Order and direct the Federal government to develop a national strategy to combat transnational criminal organizations; H.R. 1595, the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, which would allow U.S. banks and financial institutions to do business with companies trafficking in an illegal substance-marijuana; H.R. 1865, the National Law Enforcement Museum Commemorative Coin Act, which would direct the U.S. Mint to produce commemorative coins and divert some of the proceeds from their sale to support the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund; H.R. 1866, the Probation Officer Protection Act, which would amend section 3606 of Title 18, United States Code, to grant probation officers authority to arrest hostile third parties who obstruct or impede a probation officer in the performance of official duties; S. 456, the First Responders Survivors Support Act, which would increase the amount of the death benefit provided by the Public Safety Officers Benefit (PSOB) program as well as other benefits administered by the PSOB; H.R. 2070/S.954, the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act, which would establish a grant program to be administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in order to provide State and local law enforcement agencies with portable chemical screening devices to detect dangerous synthetic opioids and other drugs; H.R. 2329, the Law Enforcement Immersive Training Act, which would provide grants to State and local law enforcement agencies to access immersive, real-life, scenario-based training; H.R. 2368/S.998, the Supporting and Treating Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act, which would revive and expand programs designed to help officers and their families with stress reduction, suicide prevention and the promotion of mental health and wellness; H.R. 2379/S. 1231, the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Reauthorization Act, which permanently reauthorizes the Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) program; H.R. 2560/S.1278, the Putting First Responders First Act, which would codify existing Internal Revenue Code regulations making service-connected disability compensation exempt from Federal income taxes H.R. 2812/S.1208, the Protecting Americas First Responders Act, which would update the PSOB disability determinations and the definitions making it more consistent with existing Federal law and greatly improve the ability of our injured and disabled officers to have their claims processed more fairly and more quickly; H.R. 3735, the "Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Act," which would require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to provide information on suicide rates in law enforcement; S. 495, the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; S. 1085, the Thin Blue Line Act, which would increase the penalty for offenders who kill or attempt to kill law enforcement or other public safety officers; S. 1883, the "Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act," which would update various statutes to better fight money laundering and cash smuggling another other illicit finance crimes; S. 1231, the "A bill to reauthorize the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program," which would permanently reauthorize the bulletproof vest program;

H.R. 207, the Stop the Violence Act, which would establish a pilot program within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide grants to 10 trauma centers which have existing violence prevention or intervention programs designed to reduce re-admittance and reincarceration rates; H.R. 295, the End Banking for Human Traffickers Act, which would add the Secretary of the Treasury as a member of the Presidents Interagency Task Force; H.R. 449, the Pathways to Improving Homeland Security at the Local Level Act, which would direct the Assistant Secretary for State and Local Law Enforcement to produce an accessible annual catalog on the available DHS training, publications, programs, and services for their State, local and tribal partners; H.R. 489, the Strengthening Homeland Security, Intelligence and Essential Law Enforcement Departments (SHIELD) Act, which would make sure that Federal law enforcement officers required to report for duty even in the event that the Departments or agencies they serve have not been appropriated funds by Congress; H.R. 724/S. 479, the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, which would provide a criminal penalty for those who engage in animal crushing as well as for those who create or distribute such films; H.R. 838, the Threat Assessment, Prevention and Safety (TAPS) Act, which would provide resources to create a national strategy to identify, investigate, and mitigate possibly violent behavior through multi-disciplinary behavioral threat assessment and management; H.R. 1156, the LEOSA Reform Act, which would amend the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA), which exempts qualified active and retired law enforcement officers from local and State prohibitions on the carriage of concealed firearms, to ensure that these officers are able to carry in the same venues as civilian concealed carry permit holders in areas like schools and national parks, as well as use public transportation and extends the exemption to magazine capacity and would allow active and retired law enforcement officers to access services at U.S. post offices, Social Security Administration offices or Veterans Affairs facilities; H.R. 1210, the Heroes Lesley Zerebney and Gilbert Vega First Responders Survivors Support Act, which would increase the amount of the death benefit provided by the Public Safety Officers benefits (PSOB) program as well as other benefits administered by the PSOB; H.R. 1325, the Protect and Serve Act, which would make it a Federal crime to target a law enforcement officer with an assault that results in serious bodily harm or death; H.R. 1327/S. 546, the Never Forget the Heroes: Permanent Authorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act, which would reauthorize the Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) through the Fiscal Year 2090, the same reauthorization Congress provided for the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP); H.R. 1387, the Criminal Organizations Narcotics, Finance, Resources, Operations and Network Targeting (CONFRONT) Act, which would codify an existing Executive Order and direct the Federal government to develop a national strategy to combat transnational criminal organizations; H.R. 1595, the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, which would allow U.S. banks and financial institutions to do business with companies trafficking in an illegal substance-marijuana; H.R. 1671/S. 875, the NICS Denial Notification Act, which would require the U.S. Department of Justice to notify State and local law enforcement agencies if a prohibited person attempts to purchase a firearm in their jurisdiction; H.R. 1865, the National Law Enforcement Museum Commemorative Coin Act, which would direct the U.S. Mint to produce commemorative coins and divert some of the proceeds from their sale to support the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund; H.R. 1866, the Probation Officer Protection Act, which would amend section 3606 of Title 18, United States Code, to grant probation officers authority to arrest hostile third parties who obstruct or impede a probation officer in the performance of official duties; S. 456, the First Responders Survivors Support Act, which would increase the amount of the death benefit provided by the Public Safety Officers Benefit (PSOB) program as well as other benefits administered by the PSOB; S. 495, the EAGLES Act, which would reauthorize the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; S. 954, the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act, which would establish a grant program to be administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in order to provide State and local law enforcement agencies with portable chemical screening devices to detect dangerous synthetic opioids and other drugs;

H.R.693/S.1007 Prevent All Soring Tactics Act; H.R.724/S.479 Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act; H.R. 1157/S.1455 Horse Protection Amendments Act; H.R. 2651/S. 1802, Horseracing Integrity Act of 2017; H.R. 1622/S.708 Kittens in Traumatic Testing Ends Now Act; H.R. 961, The Safeguard American Food Exports Act; H.R. 1042 Providing Responsible Emergency Plans for Animals at Risk of Emerging Disasters (PREPARED) Act H.R. 2 Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018; USDA Implementation of all provisions for inclusion related to animal health, animal agriculture, animal welfare and veterinary medicine.

Client expense: $230,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE

Reimbursement for CAR-T therapy and E/M reform S479/HR 724, PACT Act

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

H.R. 1380 - Big Cat Public Safety Act This bill amends the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to prohibit any person from breeding or possessing prohibited wildlife species (i.e., any live species of lion, tiger, leopard, cheetah, jaguar, or cougar or any hybrid of such species). Breeding means facilitating propagation or reproduction (whether intentionally or negligently), or failing to prevent propagation or reproduction. H.R. 2083 - Endangered Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act This bill amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to authorize the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to issue one-year permits allowing Washington, Oregon, Idaho, the Nez Perce Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, and the Cowlitz Indian Tribe to kill sea lions in a portion of the Columbia River or certain tributaries in order to protect fish from sea lion predation. Permits may be issued to kill sea lions only if the sea lions are part of a population that is not depleted. H.R. 864 - Wildlife Conservation and Anti-Trafficking Act To support wildlife conservation, improve anti-trafficking enforcement, provide dedicated funding at no expense to taxpayers, and for other purposes. H.R. 737 - Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act This bill makes it illegal to possess, buy, or sell shark fins or any product containing shark fins. A person may possess a shark fin that was lawfully taken consistent with a license or permit under certain circumstances. H.R. 1776 - Captive Primate Safety Act To amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to prohibit importation, exportation, transportation, sale, receipt, acquisition, and purchase in interstate or foreign commerce, or in a manner substantially affecting interstate or foreign commerce, of any live animal of any prohibited wildlife species. H.R. 1568 - Save Right Whales Act To assist in the conservation of the North Atlantic right whale by supporting and providing financial resources for North Atlantic right whale conservation programs and projects of persons with expertise required for the conservation of North Atlantic right whales, and for other purposes. H.R. 1979 - Driftnet Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act To improve the management of driftnet fishing H.R. 693 - Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act To amend the Horse Protection Act to designate additional unlawful acts under the Act, strengthen penalties for violations of the Act, improve Department of Agriculture enforcement of the Act, and for other purposes. H.R. 724 - Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act This bill revises and expands criminal provisions with respect to animal crushing. It retains existing criminal offenses that prohibit knowingly creating or distributing an animal crush video using interstate commerce. The bill also adds a new provision to criminalize an intentional act of animal crushing. A violator is subject to criminal penalties-a fine, a prison term of up to seven years, or both.

H.R. 1380 - Big Cat Public Safety Act This bill amends the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to prohibit any person from breeding or possessing prohibited wildlife species (i.e., any live species of lion, tiger, leopard, cheetah, jaguar, or cougar or any hybrid of such species). Breeding means facilitating propagation or reproduction (whether intentionally or negligently), or failing to prevent propagation or reproduction. H.R. 2083 - Endangered Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act This bill amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to authorize the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to issue one-year permits allowing Washington, Oregon, Idaho, the Nez Perce Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, and the Cowlitz Indian Tribe to kill sea lions in a portion of the Columbia River or certain tributaries in order to protect fish from sea lion predation. Permits may be issued to kill sea lions only if the sea lions are part of a population that is not depleted. H.R. 864 - Wildlife Conservation and Anti-Trafficking Act To support wildlife conservation, improve anti-trafficking enforcement, provide dedicated funding at no expense to taxpayers, and for other purposes. H.R. 737 - Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act This bill makes it illegal to possess, buy, or sell shark fins or any product containing shark fins. A person may possess a shark fin that was lawfully taken consistent with a license or permit under certain circumstances. H.R. 1776 - Captive Primate Safety Act To amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to prohibit importation, exportation, transportation, sale, receipt, acquisition, and purchase in interstate or foreign commerce, or in a manner substantially affecting interstate or foreign commerce, of any live animal of any prohibited wildlife species. H.R. 1568 - Save Right Whales Act To assist in the conservation of the North Atlantic right whale by supporting and providing financial resources for North Atlantic right whale conservation programs and projects of persons with expertise required for the conservation of North Atlantic right whales, and for other purposes. H.R. 1979 - Driftnet Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act To improve the management of driftnet fishing H.R. 693 - Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act To amend the Horse Protection Act to designate additional unlawful acts under the Act, strengthen penalties for violations of the Act, improve Department of Agriculture enforcement of the Act, and for other purposes. H.R. 724 - Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act This bill revises and expands criminal provisions with respect to animal crushing. It retains existing criminal offenses that prohibit knowingly creating or distributing an animal crush video using interstate commerce. The bill also adds a new provision to criminalize an intentional act of animal crushing. A violator is subject to criminal penalties-a fine, a prison term of up to seven years, or both.

Monitor legislative activity on animal welfare and support the Prevent Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (H.R. 724) and Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act (S. 877).

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000

Enforcement of the Horse Protection Act of 1970 Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act - H.R. 724 / S. 479 U.S. Senator Joseph D. Tydings Memorial Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act of 2019 - H.R. 693 Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act (S. 1007) Safeguard American Food Exports Act (SAFE) of 2019 - H.R. 961 (not yet introduced in Senate) Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act of 2019 - H.R. 737 / S. 877 Horseracing Integrity Act - H.R. 1754 (not yet introduced in Senate) Welfare of Our Friends (WOOF) Act of 2019 - H.R. 1002 Opportunities for Fairness in Farming (OFF) Act - S. 935 (not yet introduced in House) Providing Responsible Emergency Plans for Animals at Risk of Emerging Disasters (PREPARED) Act - H.R. 1042 Big Cat Public Safety Act - H.R. 1380 Wildlife Conservation and Anti-Trafficking Act of 2019 - H.R. 864 Bird Safe Buildings Act - H.R. 919 Bear Protection Act - H.R. 2264 (not yet introduced in Senate) Discussions of the following bills not yet introduced by the House or Senate: Greyhound Racing Elimination Act LEAD Act PIGS (Gestation Crate Ban) Act Organic Standards Legislation FY20 Appropriations Bills, inculding Interior Appropriations (DOI), Agriculture Appropriations (USDA), and Criminal Justice Appropriations (DOJ) Puppy Protection Act TEASPA Best Practices Act Captive Primate Safety Act

Client expense: $40,000 · Firm income: Not reported

H.R. 693 Prevent All Soring Tactics Act; H.R. 724/S. 479 Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act; H.R. 1157 Horse Protection Amendments Act; H.R. 2651 Horseracing Integrity Act of 2019; H.R. 1622/S. 708 Kittens in Traumatic Testing Ends Now Act; H.R. 961, The Safeguard American Food Exports Act of 2019; H.R. 1042 Providing Responsible Emergency Plans for Animals at Risk of Emerging Disasters (PREPARED) Act H.R.2 - Agriculture Improvements Act of 2018: USDA implementation of all provisions for inclusion related to animal health, animal agriculture, animal welfare and veterinary medicine.

Client expense: $260,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Education, Dept of, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of