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HR 5064 116th Congress House Agriculture and Food Agricultural trade Congressional oversight Employee hiring Food supply, safety, and labeling Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Infectious and parasitic diseases Intergovernmental relations Livestock Meat Veterinary medicine and animal diseases

Animal Disease Surveillance and Detection Act of 2019

Introduced: January 15, 2020 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
Introduced
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 4, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
Dec 4, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations.
Nov 13, 2019
Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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 13, 2019
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Animal Disease Surveillance and Detection Act of 2019

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to establish an interagency task force to make recommendations regarding inspection requirements and detection protocols for preventing the transmission of animal diseases. The bill also requires the CPB to hire additional agriculture specialists, support staff, agriculture technicians, and canine teams for ports of entry.

What's happening now December 4, 2019

Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 5
All 5 Democratic 1 Republican 4
D
Cuellar, Henry
Texas · Jan 29, 2020
 R
Baird, James R.
Indiana · Jan 15, 2020
 R
Crawford, Eric A. "Rick"
Arkansas · Jan 15, 2020
 R
Kelly, Trent
Mississippi · Jan 15, 2020
 R
Marshall, Roger
Kansas · Jan 15, 2020
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5064: Animal Disease Surveillance and Detection Act of 2019. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-5064/
MLA
"H.R. 5064: Animal Disease Surveillance and Detection Act of 2019." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-5064/.
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H.R. 5064, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-5064/.
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