HR 4454
115th Congress
House
Animals
Health programs administration and funding
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Mammals
Neurological disorders
Research administration and funding
State and local government operations
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
Chronic Wasting Disease Management Act
Introduced: November 21, 2017
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Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 21, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
Nov 29, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Nov 21, 2017
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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.
Nov 21, 2017
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
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.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
Committees of jurisdiction
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