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HR 1550 116th 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: April 18, 2019 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 27, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.
Mar 27, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
Mar 26, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
Mar 6, 2019
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.
Mar 6, 2019
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 March 27, 2019

Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.

 Related & companion bills 2
  • S 689 Related bill Chronic Wasting Disease Management Act
  • HR 1326 Related bill ACCESS Act
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 5
 Cosponsors 16
All 16 Democratic 8 Republican 5
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Tiffany, Thomas P.
Wisconsin · Sep 1, 2020
 D
Moore, Gwen
Wisconsin · Feb 5, 2020
 D
Pocan, Mark
Wisconsin · Jan 24, 2020
 R
Steil, Bryan
Wisconsin · Dec 12, 2019
 R
Johnson, Dusty
South Dakota · Nov 12, 2019
Abraham, Ralph
· Oct 29, 2019
 D
Casten, Sean
Illinois · Aug 30, 2019
 D
Cisneros, Gilbert Ray
California · Jul 23, 2019
 D
Lofgren, Zoe
California · May 2, 2019
 D
Craig, Angie
Minnesota · Apr 25, 2019
Gallagher, Mike
· Apr 18, 2019
 R
Stauber, Pete
Minnesota · Apr 9, 2019
 D
Bonamici, Suzanne
Oregon · Mar 21, 2019
 R
Grothman, Glenn
Wisconsin · Mar 18, 2019
 D
Welch, Peter
Vermont · Mar 18, 2019
SENSENBRENNER, F.
· Mar 6, 2019
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1550: Chronic Wasting Disease Management Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-1550/
MLA
"H.R. 1550: Chronic Wasting Disease Management Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-1550/.
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H.R. 1550, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-1550/.
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