HR 4454 · 115th Congress · Animals

Chronic Wasting Disease Management Act

Introduced 2017-11-21· Sponsored by Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]· House

Bill Progress

Introduced
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Committee
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House Vote
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Senate
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Enacted
Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.(2017-12-21)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Chronic Wasting Disease Management Act This bill requires the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service-Wildlife Services to support state and tribal efforts to address chronic wasting disease. The transmissible disease afflicts deer, elk, and moose populations. The agency must make grants to research centers to support efforts to expand and accelerate applied research on the disease. Land management agencies of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior must work cooperatively with states in researching the disease and implementing state response plans to reduce the spread and prevalence of the disease.…

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Cosponsors (11)

8 Democrats3 Republicans