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H.R. 3038 119th Congress House

SAFE Act of 2025

Official title: To amend the Animal Health Protection Act to improve the prevention of the spread of animal diseases, and for other purposes.

Introduced: April 28, 2025 Introduced by: Randy Feenstra Republican · Iowa See on congress.gov
Agriculture and Food
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Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
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Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Safe American Food Exports Act of 2025 or the SAFE Act of 2025

This bill provides statutory authority for the Department of Agriculture to negotiate in advance for regional export ban agreements for known animal disease threats that apply only to areas affected by animal disease outbreaks to enable the continuation of exports from areas not affected by an outbreak.

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the Food Safety and Inspection Service, and the Foreign Agricultural Service, in consultation with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, may negotiate the regionalization, zoning, compartmentalization, and other agreements regarding outbreaks of known animal disease threats of trade significance with countries with export markets for livestock animals or animal products from the United States.

The bill also specifies that such a negotiation should seek to take into account accepted global research advances.

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Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

  • AQUIA GROUP, LLC
    for ICON TECHNOLOGY, INC. · Texas · 4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31)
  • AQUIA GROUP, LLC
    for VENUS AEROSPACE · Texas · 4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31)
  • AQUIA GROUP, LLC
    for VENUS AEROSPACE · Texas · 3rd Quarter 2025 (July 1 - Sep 30)
  • AQUIA GROUP, LLC
    for VENUS AEROSPACE · Texas · 2nd Quarter 2025 (Apr 1 - June 30)
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 3
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Gottheimer, Josh
New Jersey · Apr 6, 2026
 D
Vindman, Eugene Simon
Virginia · Dec 4, 2025
 D
Panetta, Jimmy
California · Apr 28, 2025
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3038: SAFE Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-3038/
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"H.R. 3038: SAFE Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-3038/.
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H.R. 3038, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-3038/.
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[H.R. 3038: SAFE Act of 2025](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-3038/)
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