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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 512
To establish a fund to promote the inspection and consumption of shrimp
and products containing shrimp or shrimp parts.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY16, 2025
Mr. H
IGGINSof Louisiana introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To establish a fund to promote the inspection and consump-
tion of shrimp and products containing shrimp or shrimp
parts.
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 or the ‘‘Imported Sea-4
food Safety Standards Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. INSPECTION AND CONSUMPTION OF SHRIMP AND 1
SHRIMP PRODUCTS FUND. 2
(a) I
NGENERAL.—There is established in the Treas-3
ury of the United States a fund to be known as the ‘‘In-4
spection and Consumption of Shrimp and Shrimp Prod-5
ucts Fund’’ (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Fund’’), 6
consisting of such amounts as may be transferred to the 7
Fund under subsection (b) and to be available as provided 8
for under subsection (c). 9
(b) T
RANSFER OFAMOUNTS.— 10
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Treas-11
ury shall transfer to the Fund, from the general 12
fund of the Treasury, amounts determined by the 13
Secretary to be equivalent to 70 percent of amounts 14
received in the general fund that are attributable to 15
duties assessed by the United States, including du-16
ties assessed pursuant to a countervailing duty order 17
or antidumping duty order under the Tariff Act of 18
1930 or a finding under the Antidumping Act of 19
1921, collected on imports of shrimp and products 20
containing shrimp or shrimp parts described in para-21
graph (2) for fiscal year 2026 and each subsequent 22
fiscal year. 23
(2) S
HRIMP AND PRODUCTS CONTAINING 24
SHRIMP OR SHRIMP PARTS DESCRIBED .—The 25
shrimp and products containing shrimp or shrimp 26
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parts described in this paragraph are those products 1
provided for in any subheading of the Harmonized 2
Tariff Schedule of the United States, including sub-3
headings 0306.16.00, 0306.17.00, 0306.35.00, 4
0306.36.00, 0306.95.00, 1605.21, and 1605.29 of 5
such schedule (or successor subheadings). 6
(c) U
SE OFAMOUNTS.—Amounts in the Fund shall 7
be available for each such fiscal year as follows: 8
(1) Fifty percent of such amounts shall be used 9
by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, 10
acting through the Commissioner of Food and 11
Drugs, for— 12
(A) the inspection, examination, sampling, 13
and testing of shrimp that present a high risk 14
of contamination from unapproved antibiotic 15
residues to identify violations of the provisions 16
of law carried out by the Secretary, acting 17
through the Commissioner; 18
(B) seafood importer inspections, associ-19
ated training, capacity building, regulatory 20
partnerships, and development of data analytics 21
in support of such work; and 22
(C) coordination and data sharing with the 23
Secretary of Commerce, the Commissioner of 24
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the 25
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heads of other relevant Federal agencies to en-1
sure that imports of shrimp and products con-2
taining shrimp or shrimp parts described in 3
subsection (b)(2) are not originating with 4
forced labor or illegal, unreported, or unregu-5
lated sources pursuant to Public Law 117–78 6
(an Act to ensure that goods made with forced 7
labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Re-8
gion of the People’s Republic of China do not 9
enter the United States market, and for other 10
purposes). 11
(2) Fifty percent of such amounts shall be used 12
by the Secretary of Agriculture to, pursuant to para-13
graph (2) of the second sentence of section 32 of the 14
Act of August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c), encourage 15
the domestic consumption of shrimp. 16
(d) A
VAILABILITY.—Amounts in the Fund shall, not-17
withstanding any other provision law, remain available 18
until expended. 19
(e) S
UPPLEMENT, NOTSUPPLANT.—The funding 20
provided under subsection (c) to purchase shrimp shall 21
supplement (and not supplant) other Federal funding (in-22
cluding funding made available under section 32 of the 23
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Act of August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c)) to make such 1
purchases, if appropriate. 2
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