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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 901 |
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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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH21, 2023 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. B |
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| 10 | 10 | | RAUN(for himself, Ms. SMITH, Mr. COONS, and Mr. WICKER) intro- |
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| 11 | 11 | | duced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Com- |
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| 12 | 12 | | mittee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To amend the Animal Health Protection Act to improve |
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| 15 | 15 | | the prevention of the spread of animal diseases, and |
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| 16 | 16 | | for other purposes. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Safe American Food 4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Exports Act of 2023’’ or the ‘‘SAFE Act of 2023’’. 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEC. 2. ENGAGEMENT WITH KEY EXPORT MARKETS. 6 |
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| 23 | 23 | | (a) I |
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| 24 | 24 | | NGENERAL.—Section 10405 of the Animal 7 |
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| 25 | 25 | | Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 8304) is amended— 8 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •S 901 IS |
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| 29 | 29 | | (1) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | section (e); and 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the fol-3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | lowing: 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | ‘‘(d) E |
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| 34 | 34 | | NGAGEMENTWITHKEYEXPORTMARKETS.— 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 36 | 36 | | N GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting 6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | through the Administrator of the Animal and Plant 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | Health Inspection Service and the Under Secretary 8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | Affairs, in coordination with the Administrator of 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | the Food Safety and Inspection Service, may pre-11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | emptively negotiate, to the extent practicable, re-12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | gionalization agreements regarding outbreaks of 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | known animal disease threats with the governments 14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | of countries with key export markets for any animal, 15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | article, or associated means of conveyance from the 16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | United States. 17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | ‘‘(2) R |
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| 49 | 49 | | ESEARCH.—A negotiation carried out 18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | under paragraph (1) is encouraged to take into ac-19 |
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| 51 | 51 | | count accepted global research advances.’’. 20 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (b) R |
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| 53 | 53 | | ULE OFCONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-21 |
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| 54 | 54 | | tion— 22 |
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| 55 | 55 | | (1) limits the ability of the Secretary of Agri-23 |
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| 56 | 56 | | culture to negotiate trade agreements; or 24 |
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| 59 | 59 | | •S 901 IS |
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| 60 | 60 | | (2) requires the Secretary of Agriculture to con-1 |
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| 61 | 61 | | dition other trade agreements on the inclusion of 2 |
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| 62 | 62 | | language relating to regionalization as described in 3 |
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| 63 | 63 | | subsection (d)(1) of section 10405 of the Animal 4 |
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| 64 | 64 | | Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 3804). 5 |
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| 65 | 65 | | SEC. 3. EXPORT LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION. 6 |
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| 66 | 66 | | The Secretary of Agriculture shall promulgate a reg-7 |
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| 67 | 67 | | ulation to require that, in the case of any language re-8 |
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| 68 | 68 | | moved from the Import and Export Library of the Food 9 |
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| 69 | 69 | | Safety and Inspection Service, the Administrator of the 10 |
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| 70 | 70 | | Food Safety and Inspection Service shall directly notify 11 |
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| 71 | 71 | | each State department of agriculture, each lead State 12 |
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| 72 | 72 | | agency for animal disease, and any entity that petitioned 13 |
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| 73 | 73 | | for the inclusion of that language of such removal not later 14 |
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| 74 | 74 | | than 3 days after such removal. 15 |
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