A bill to amend the Animal Welfare Act to remove the limitation that permits interstate movement of live birds, for the purpose of fighting, to States in which animal fighting is lawful.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 345.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 345, A bill to amend the Animal Welfare Act to remove the limitation that permits interstate movement of live birds, for the purpose of fighting, to states in which animal fighting is lawful” on March 27, 2000. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry on March 2, 2000”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, March 27, 2000 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/12161

  CBO publication date

  March 27, 2000

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 345, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/s/345

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: S. Rept. 106-297 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee on May 18, 2000.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported May 18, 2000 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/106/SRPT/297

  Congress.gov bill record

  S. 345, 106th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/106/s/345

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 28, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

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