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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 3748 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Animal Health Protection Act to improve the prevention of |
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| 6 | 6 | | the spread of animal diseases, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MAY30, 2023 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. F |
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| 10 | 10 | | EENSTRA(for himself and Mr. PANETTA) introduced the following bill; |
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| 11 | 11 | | which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to |
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| 12 | 12 | | the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently de- |
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| 13 | 13 | | termined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions |
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| 14 | 14 | | as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL |
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| 16 | 16 | | To amend the Animal Health Protection Act to improve |
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| 17 | 17 | | the prevention of the spread of animal diseases, and |
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| 18 | 18 | | for other purposes. |
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| 19 | 19 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 20 | 20 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 22 | 22 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Safe American Food 4 |
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| 23 | 23 | | Exports Act of 2023’’ or the ‘‘SAFE Act of 2023’’. 5 |
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| 24 | 24 | | SEC. 2. ENGAGEMENT WITH KEY EXPORT MARKETS. 6 |
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| 25 | 25 | | (a) I |
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| 26 | 26 | | NGENERAL.—Section 10405 of the Animal 7 |
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| 27 | 27 | | Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 8304) is amended— 8 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (1) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-1 |
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| 32 | 32 | | section (e); and 2 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the fol-3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | lowing: 4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | ‘‘(d) E |
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| 36 | 36 | | NGAGEMENTWITHKEYEXPORTMARKETS.— 5 |
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| 37 | 37 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 38 | 38 | | N GENERAL.—To reduce the impact of 6 |
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| 39 | 39 | | animal disease outbreaks on United States exports, 7 |
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| 40 | 40 | | the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of 8 |
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| 41 | 41 | | the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the 9 |
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| 42 | 42 | | Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and For-10 |
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| 43 | 43 | | eign Agricultural Affairs, and the Administrator of 11 |
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| 44 | 44 | | the Food Safety and Inspection Service, in consulta-12 |
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| 45 | 45 | | tion with the United States Trade Representative, is 13 |
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| 46 | 46 | | authorized to negotiate regionalization, zoning, 14 |
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| 47 | 47 | | compartmentalization, and other trade agreements 15 |
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| 48 | 48 | | regarding outbreaks of known animal disease threats 16 |
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| 49 | 49 | | of trade significance with the governments of coun-17 |
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| 50 | 50 | | tries with export markets for livestock animals or 18 |
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| 51 | 51 | | animal products from the United States. 19 |
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| 52 | 52 | | ‘‘(2) R |
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| 53 | 53 | | ESEARCH.—A negotiation carried out 20 |
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| 54 | 54 | | under paragraph (1) should seek to take into ac-21 |
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| 55 | 55 | | count accepted global research advances.’’. 22 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (b) R |
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| 57 | 57 | | ULE OFCONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-23 |
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| 58 | 58 | | tion may be construed— 24 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (1) to limit the ability of the United States 1 |
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| 63 | 63 | | Trade Representative to negotiate trade agreements; 2 |
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| 64 | 64 | | or 3 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (2) to require the United States Trade Rep-4 |
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| 66 | 66 | | resentative to condition other trade agreements on 5 |
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| 67 | 67 | | the inclusion of language relating to reducing the 6 |
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| 68 | 68 | | impact of animal disease outbreaks on United States 7 |
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| 69 | 69 | | exports, as described in subsection (d)(1) of section 8 |
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| 70 | 70 | | 10405 of the Animal Health Protection Act (7 9 |
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| 71 | 71 | | U.S.C. 3804). 10 |
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| 72 | 72 | | SEC. 3. NOTIFICATION SYSTEM. 11 |
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| 73 | 73 | | The Secretary of Agriculture shall promulgate a reg-12 |
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| 74 | 74 | | ulation to require that, in the case of any language re-13 |
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| 75 | 75 | | moved from the Import and Export Library of the Food 14 |
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| 76 | 76 | | Safety and Inspection Service, the Administrator of the 15 |
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| 77 | 77 | | Food Safety and Inspection Service shall directly notify 16 |
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| 78 | 78 | | each State department of agriculture, each lead State 17 |
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| 79 | 79 | | agency for animal disease, and any State and national pro-18 |
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| 80 | 80 | | ducer organizations representing impacted livestock pro-19 |
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| 81 | 81 | | ducers not later than 3 days after such removal. 20 |
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