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H.R.5643 / 111th Congress

Compound 1080 and Sodium Cyanide Elimination Act

Referred to House Judiciary

Official summary

Version 00 · Introduced in House · Jun 30, 2010

Compound 1080 and Sodium Cyanide Elimination Act - Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to prohibit the use, production, sale, importation, or exportation of sodium fluoroacetate (known as Compound 1080).

Prohibits the use of sodium cyanide in a predator control device.

Subjects a violator of either such prohibition to a fine, imprisonment for not more than two years, or both.

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Who introduced it

Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4] · D–OR

Committees

  • Judiciary Committee
  • Energy and Commerce Committee
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  1. Referred to House Judiciary

  2. Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  3. Referred to House Energy and Commerce

  4. Introduced in House

  5. Introduced in House

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