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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2868 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 |
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| 6 | 6 | | to add highly pathogenic avian influenza as a high priority research |
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| 7 | 7 | | and extension area. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | APRIL10, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Ms. M |
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| 11 | 11 | | CBRIDE(for herself and Mr. LAWLER) introduced the following bill; |
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| 12 | 12 | | which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade |
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| 15 | 15 | | Act of 1990 to add highly pathogenic avian influenza |
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| 16 | 16 | | as a high priority research and extension area. |
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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 ‘‘Supporting Avian 4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Virus Eradication Act’’ or the ‘‘SAVE Our Poultry Act’’. 5 |
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| 25 | 25 | | SEC. 2. ADDITION OF HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLU-1 |
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| 26 | 26 | | ENZA AS A HIGH PRIORITY RESEARCH AND 2 |
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| 27 | 27 | | EXTENSION AREA. 3 |
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| 28 | 28 | | Section 1672(d) of the Food, Agriculture, Conserva-4 |
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| 29 | 29 | | tion, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5925(d)) is amend-5 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ed by adding at the end the following: 6 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ‘‘(21) H |
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| 32 | 32 | | IGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLU -7 |
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| 33 | 33 | | ENZA.—Research and extension grants may be made 8 |
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| 34 | 34 | | under this section to land-grant colleges and univer-9 |
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| 35 | 35 | | sities (as defined in section 1404 of National Agri-10 |
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| 36 | 36 | | cultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy 11 |
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| 37 | 37 | | Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3103)) to study highly patho-12 |
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| 38 | 38 | | genic avian influenza for the purposes of— 13 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ‘‘(A) developing and improving the efficacy 14 |
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| 40 | 40 | | of vaccines for poultry, including with respect 15 |
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| 41 | 41 | | to— 16 |
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| 42 | 42 | | ‘‘(i) researching the effectiveness of 17 |
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| 43 | 43 | | such vaccines across poultry species; 18 |
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| 44 | 44 | | ‘‘(ii) improving formulations of such 19 |
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| 45 | 45 | | vaccines; 20 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ‘‘(iii) improving the delivery mecha-21 |
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| 47 | 47 | | nisms for such vaccines; and 22 |
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| 48 | 48 | | ‘‘(iv) assessing the potential implica-23 |
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| 49 | 49 | | tions of vaccination on domestic and inter-24 |
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| 50 | 50 | | national poultry markets, including trade 25 |
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| 51 | 51 | | and market access considerations; and 26 |
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| 55 | 55 | | ‘‘(B) enhancing biosecurity procedures for 1 |
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| 56 | 56 | | poultry producers, including with respect to— 2 |
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| 57 | 57 | | ‘‘(i) evaluating training and biosecu-3 |
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| 58 | 58 | | rity practices; 4 |
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| 59 | 59 | | ‘‘(ii) improving farm-level interven-5 |
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| 60 | 60 | | tions; and 6 |
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| 61 | 61 | | ‘‘(iii) developing new disinfection 7 |
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| 62 | 62 | | methods.’’. 8 |
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