House bill · 113th Congress · Did not become law
Pet Safety and Protection Act of 2013
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJun 3, 2013
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 25, 2013 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development, and Credit.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2224.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DOYLE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H3015):This law is enacted pursuant to Article 1, Section 8, Clauses 1 and 3 to the U.S. Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, record updated August 12, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 95 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2224, 113th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/2224
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 12, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 23, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
a1ef480ecc546b5bc64994a6b393407f036d76e204993001d4348f780626a754
PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of August 12, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
78 cosponsors — 11 Republicans, 67 Democrats
11 of 78 cosponsors (14%) are from the other party.
Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI), Timothy Bishop (D-NY), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Lois Capps (D-CA), Michael Capuano (D-MA), Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Judy Chu (D-CA), David Cicilline (D-RI), Katherine Clark (D-MA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), John Conyers (D-MI), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Theodore Deutch (D-FL), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Sam Farr (D-CA), Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), Michael Grimm (R-NY), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), James Himes (D-CT) and 48 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 113th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Mike Doyle.
- H.R. 5146 (113th) To designate the United States courthouse located at 700 Grant Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the "Joseph F. Weis Jr. United…
- H.R. 708 (113th) Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2013
- H.R. 2153 (113th) Department of Veterans Affairs Disease Reporting and Oversight Act of 2013
- H.R. 2152 (113th) National Program for Arts and Technology Act of 2013
- H.Res. 426 (113th) Expressing support for the designation of the Thursday before Thanksgiving as "Children's Grief Awareness Day".
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 23, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.