Humane Retirement Act
Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure that healthy research dogs and cats are adopted into suitable homes.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Humane Retirement Act
This bill requires animal care committees at entities that receive federal funds for biomedical or behavioral research to make reasonable efforts to find parties to adopt dogs and cats that have been retired from research. Prior to euthanizing, the animal care committee must assess the temperament of the dog or cat to determine whether it is suitable for adoption and, if so, make reasonable efforts to offer the dog or cat to an adopting party.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2850: Humane Retirement Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-2850/
"H.R. 2850: Humane Retirement Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-2850/.
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