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H.Res. 30: Condemning the Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, China, and urging China to end the dog meat trade.

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H.Res. 30: Condemning the Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, China, and urging China to end the dog meat trade.

115th Congress · introduced 2017-01-06 · International Affairs · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2017-01-06 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Condemning the Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, China, and urging China to end the dog meat trade.

Plain summary

Condemns the Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, China, because it: (1) is a spectacle of extreme animal cruelty, (2) is a commercial activity not grounded in Chinese history, (3) is opposed by a majority of the Chinese people, and (4) threatens global public health. Urges: the government of China and the Yulin authorities to ban the killing and eating of dogs as part of Yulin's festival and to enforce China's food safety laws regulating the processing and sale of animal products and the 2011 Agriculture Ministry of China Regulation on the Quarantine of Dogs at the Place of Origin requiring one certificate for one dog on trans-provincial transport trucks, and the National People's Congress of China to enact an animal anticruelty law that bans the dog meat trade. Affirms the commitment of the United States to the protection of animals and to the progress of animal protection.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Condemning the Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, China, and urging China to end the dog meat trade.

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20] · 175 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Lois Frankel (D-FL), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), Scott Perry (R-PA), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA), Adam B. Schiff (D-CA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL), Dina Titus (D-NV), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Peter Welch (D-VT), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), William R. Keating (D-MA), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Doris O. Matsui (D-CA), Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Norma J. Torres (D-CA), Donald Norcross (D-NJ), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), Diana DeGette (D-CO) and 115 more.

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Words on this page, explained (3)
Resolution
A formal statement or decision by a legislative body. Simple resolutions often only express an opinion or set rules for one chamber; they do not become law.
Roll-call vote
A vote where each member's position is recorded by name, so the public can see how every member voted. "Yea" means yes, "Nay" means no, "Present" means the member was there but did not take a side.
Rulemaking
The process agencies use to write regulations that carry out laws passed by Congress or a legislature. Usually an agency publishes a proposed rule, takes public comments, then publishes a final rule.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hres30 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115