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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 See on congress.gov
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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
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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 December 21, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4454: Chronic Wasting Disease Management Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4454/
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"H.R. 4454: Chronic Wasting Disease Management Act." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4454/.
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