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HR 16458 93th Congress

A bill to establish a Federal Zoo Accreditation Board in order to insure that zoos and other animal display facilities maintain minimum standards of care for animal inventories, to provide technical…

Official title: A bill to establish a Federal Zoo Accreditation Board in order to insure that zoos and other animal display facilities maintain minimum standards of care for a… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to establish a Federal Zoo Accreditation Board in order to insure that zoos and other animal display facilities maintain minimum standards of care for animal inventories, to provide technical and financial assistance to zoos.

Introduced: August 19, 1974 See on congress.gov
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 16458: A bill to establish a Federal Zoo Accreditation Board in order to insure that zoos and other animal display facilities maintain minimum standards of care for animal inventories, to provide technical and financial assistance to zoos.. 93rd Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/93-HR-16458/
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"H.R. 16458: A bill to establish a Federal Zoo Accreditation Board in order to insure that zoos and other animal display facilities maintain minimum standards of care for animal inventories, to provide technical and financial assistance to zoos.." 93rd Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/93-HR-16458/.
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H.R. 16458, 93rd Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/93-HR-16458/.
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[H.R. 16458: A bill to establish a Federal Zoo Accreditation Board in order to insure that zoos and other animal display facilities maintain minimum standards of care for animal inventories, to provide technical and financial assistance to zoos.](https://openamerica.io/bill/93-HR-16458/)
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