HELP PETS Act Higher Education Loses Payments for Painful Experiments, Tests and Studies Act
PRIMATES Act of 2024 Painful Research and Investigations on Monkeys Abused in Taxpayer-funded Experiments Stops Act of 2024
LOANS for Biomedical Research Act Long-term Opportunities for Advancing New Studies for Biomedical Research Act
AG RESEARCH Act Augmenting Research and Educational Sites to Ensure Agriculture Remains Cutting-edge and Helpful Act
Pet Safety and Protection Act of 2023 This bill revises requirements concerning the sources of dogs and cats used by research facilities. Specifically, the bill revises the list of permissible sources of dogs and cats used by research facilities to include dogs and cats obtained (1) from a licensed dealer, (2) from a publicly owned and operated pound or shelter that meets specified requirements, (3) by donation from a person who bred and raised the dog or cat or owned it for not less than one year, or (4) from a research facility licensed by the Department of Agriculture. The requirements pertaining to sources apply to dogs and cats obtained through sales, donations, or offers. Monetary penalties are established for violations.
AG RESEARCH Act Augmenting Research and Educational Sites to Ensure Agriculture Remains Cutting-Edge and Helpful Act
Viral Gain-of-Function Research Moratorium Act This bill prohibits the award of federal research grants to institutions of higher education or research institutes that conduct gain-of-function research. Gain-of-function research refers to any research that (1) could confer attributes to influenza, MERS, or SARS viruses such that the virus would have enhanced pathogenicity or transmissibility in an organism; or (2) involves methods that could enhance potential pandemic pathogens or related risky research with potentially dangerous pathogens.
Higher Education Marijuana Research Act of 2023
To require the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop a consistent set of policy guidelines for Federal research agencies to address mental health and mentoring of graduate researchers and postdoctoral researchers, and for other purposes.
AFTER Act of 2023 Animal Freedom from Testing, Experiments, and Research Act of 2023