HR 4638referred119th Congress

Federal Working Animal Protection Act

Introduced Jul 23, 2025House billPolicy area: ImmigrationLast action Mar 19, 2026Sponsor: Ken Calvert(R-CA)

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Official summaryUpdated Mar 19, 2026

What the bill does

Bill to Outlaw Wounding of Official Working Animals Act or the BOWOW Act This bill establishes that a non-U.S. national ( alien under federal law) convicted of, or who admits to having committed, an offense related to harming animals used in law enforcement is inadmissible and deportable.

Latest official action

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Lobbying Filings Citing It

$17.0K

Reported on Those Filings, All Issues

Lobbying Clients

100

Recorded Votes

Timeline

Apr 17, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS

Jul 23, 2025bill

Bill introduced

Mar 19, 2026vote

James R. Baird voted yea

Mar 19, 2026vote

Katherine M. Clark voted nay

Mar 19, 2026vote

Timothy M. Kennedy voted nay

Official Congressional Actions

Mar 19, 2026Floor

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

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Mar 19, 2026Floor

Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 228 - 190 (Roll no. 96). (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H2600)

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Mar 19, 2026Floor

Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 1115. (consideration: CR H2600-2606)

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Mar 19, 2026Floor

The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.

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Lobbying Activity

Registrant	Client	Amount	Filed	Period	Issues
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS	NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS	$17.0K	Apr 17, 2025	2025Q1	EDUHCRMMM

Votes on This Bill

Member	Party	Position	Date
James R. Baird	R	yea	Mar 19, 2026
Katherine M. Clark	D	nay	Mar 19, 2026
Timothy M. Kennedy	D	nay	Mar 19, 2026
Earl L. "Buddy" Carter	R	yea	Mar 19, 2026

About this page

The lobbying table lists Senate LDA quarterly reports (LD-2) that cite this bill by number and cover a quarter of the 119th Congress. An LD-2 names a bill as “H.R. 1234” with no Congress, so a report on another Congress, which can only concern a different bill with the same number, is left out, even when it was filed after this Congress began. The amount is what the registrant reported for the whole filing, across every issue on it, not spending on this bill. Official actions and the bill summary come from Congress.gov, and votes from the roll-call record. This page no longer pairs the bill with members' stock trades: matching lobbying clients to traded companies by name, and trades to a bill by date, is not something the records establish.