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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1085 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the National Institutes |
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| 6 | 6 | | of Health from awarding any support for an activity or program that |
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| 7 | 7 | | uses live animals in research unless the research occurs in the United |
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| 8 | 8 | | States, and for other purposes. |
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| 9 | 9 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 10 | 10 | | FEBRUARY6, 2025 |
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| 11 | 11 | | Mr. N |
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| 12 | 12 | | EHLS(for himself, Ms. TITUS, Ms. NORTON, Mrs. KIM, Mr. |
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| 14 | 14 | | ITZPATRICK, Mr. DAVISof North Carolina, Ms. MALLIOTAKIS, Mr. |
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| 15 | 15 | | G |
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| 16 | 16 | | OODEN, and Mr. MACKENZIE) introduced the following bill; which was |
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| 17 | 17 | | referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce |
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| 18 | 18 | | A BILL |
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| 19 | 19 | | To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the |
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| 20 | 20 | | National Institutes of Health from awarding any support |
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| 21 | 21 | | for an activity or program that uses live animals in |
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| 22 | 22 | | research unless the research occurs in the United States, |
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| 23 | 23 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 24 | 24 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 25 | 25 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 26 | 26 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 27 | 27 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Cease Animal Research 4 |
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| 28 | 28 | | Grants Overseas Act of 2025’’ or the ‘‘CARGO Act of 5 |
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| 29 | 29 | | 2025’’. 6 |
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| 33 | 33 | | SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 1 |
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| 34 | 34 | | Congress finds the following: 2 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (1) From fiscal year 2011 through fiscal year 3 |
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| 36 | 36 | | 2021, the National Institutes of Health provided ap-4 |
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| 37 | 37 | | proximately $2.2 billion to foreign organizations for 5 |
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| 38 | 38 | | research projects involving animals. 6 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (2) The National Institutes of Health does not 7 |
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| 40 | 40 | | conduct inspections of foreign organizations, and 8 |
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| 41 | 41 | | these organizations self-report information per-9 |
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| 42 | 42 | | taining to animal welfare, creating a risk that infor-10 |
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| 43 | 43 | | mation will be misrepresented. 11 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (3) This lack of oversight has resulted in the 12 |
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| 45 | 45 | | mistreatment of animals used in research projects 13 |
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| 46 | 46 | | performed outside the United States and funded by 14 |
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| 47 | 47 | | the American public. 15 |
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| 48 | 48 | | SEC. 3. NO NIH SUPPORT FOR USE OF LIVE ANIMALS IN RE-16 |
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| 49 | 49 | | SEARCH BY PERSONS OUTSIDE OF THE 17 |
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| 50 | 50 | | UNITED STATES. 18 |
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| 51 | 51 | | Section 495 of the Public Health Service Act (42 19 |
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| 52 | 52 | | U.S.C. 289d) is amended— 20 |
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| 53 | 53 | | (1) in subsections (a)(3) and (c)(1)(A), by 21 |
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| 54 | 54 | | striking ‘‘subsection (b)’’ each place it appears and 22 |
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| 55 | 55 | | inserting ‘‘subsection (c)’’; 23 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (2) in subsection (b)(1) by striking ‘‘subsection 24 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (a)(3)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (b)(3)’’; 25 |
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| 61 | 61 | | (3) in subsections (b)(1), (b)(3)(A), (b)(3)(C), 1 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (c)(1)(A), and (d)(1), by striking ‘‘subsection (a)’’ 2 |
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| 63 | 63 | | each place it appears and inserting ‘‘subsection (b)’’; 3 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (4) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘subsections 4 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (a) or (c)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (b) or (d)’’; 5 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (5) by redesignating subsections (a) through (e) 6 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (as amended by this section) as subsections (b) 7 |
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| 68 | 68 | | through (f), respectively; and 8 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (6) by inserting before subsection (b) (as so re-9 |
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| 70 | 70 | | designated) the following: 10 |
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| 71 | 71 | | ‘‘(a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this 11 |
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| 72 | 72 | | Act, the National Institutes of Health may not award any 12 |
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| 73 | 73 | | support (including any grant, contract, cooperative agree-13 |
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| 74 | 74 | | ment, or technical assistance) for any activity or program 14 |
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| 75 | 75 | | that uses live animals for research unless the research oc-15 |
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| 76 | 76 | | curs in the United States. 16 |
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| 77 | 77 | | ‘‘(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), the term ‘United 17 |
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| 78 | 78 | | States’ includes, in addition to the several States, the Dis-18 |
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| 79 | 79 | | trict of Columbia and any territory or possession of the 19 |
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| 80 | 80 | | United States.’’. 20 |
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