This bill is intended to ban pythons in the US (or at least Burmese, reticulated, and African rocks). You can read more here, and here (on the 11/6 hearing). Rep. Kendrick Meek doesn't have a direct email address, but you can email his chief of...

A Volusian County, FL, man was bitten by a cottonmouth while working at a landfill. (News source.) Two Pasco County, FL, men were bitten by rattlesnakes. (News source.)

The first python hunter by 15 licensed trappers in the Everglades only came up with 37 snakes in a 4-month period. Most of those were young and "underfed." (News source.)

The venom for shrews and beaded lizards derived from similar changes to a harmless digestive enzyme. (Eurekalert.)

AP has video on a 2-headed snake found in Illinois. They misidentify it as a watersnake, though. It's a juvenile ratsnake.