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118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 901
To amend the Animal Health Protection Act to improve the prevention of
the spread of animal diseases, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH21, 2023
Mr. B
RAUN(for himself, Ms. SMITH, Mr. COONS, and Mr. WICKER) intro-
duced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Com-
mittee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
A BILL
To amend the Animal Health Protection Act to improve
the prevention of the spread of animal diseases, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Safe American Food 4
Exports Act of 2023’’ or the ‘‘SAFE Act of 2023’’. 5
SEC. 2. ENGAGEMENT WITH KEY EXPORT MARKETS. 6
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 10405 of the Animal 7
Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 8304) is amended— 8
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(1) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-1
section (e); and 2
(2) by inserting after subsection (c) the fol-3
lowing: 4
‘‘(d) E
NGAGEMENTWITHKEYEXPORTMARKETS.— 5
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting 6
through the Administrator of the Animal and Plant 7
Health Inspection Service and the Under Secretary 8
of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural 9
Affairs, in coordination with the Administrator of 10
the Food Safety and Inspection Service, may pre-11
emptively negotiate, to the extent practicable, re-12
gionalization agreements regarding outbreaks of 13
known animal disease threats with the governments 14
of countries with key export markets for any animal, 15
article, or associated means of conveyance from the 16
United States. 17
‘‘(2) R
ESEARCH.—A negotiation carried out 18
under paragraph (1) is encouraged to take into ac-19
count accepted global research advances.’’. 20
(b) R
ULE OFCONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-21
tion— 22
(1) limits the ability of the Secretary of Agri-23
culture to negotiate trade agreements; or 24
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(2) requires the Secretary of Agriculture to con-1
dition other trade agreements on the inclusion of 2
language relating to regionalization as described in 3
subsection (d)(1) of section 10405 of the Animal 4
Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 3804). 5
SEC. 3. EXPORT LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION. 6
The Secretary of Agriculture shall promulgate a reg-7
ulation to require that, in the case of any language re-8
moved from the Import and Export Library of the Food 9
Safety and Inspection Service, the Administrator of the 10
Food Safety and Inspection Service shall directly notify 11
each State department of agriculture, each lead State 12
agency for animal disease, and any entity that petitioned 13
for the inclusion of that language of such removal not later 14
than 3 days after such removal. 15
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