Bill > HR1550

Introduced Session

To support State and tribal efforts to develop and implement management strategies to address chronic wasting disease among deer, elk, and moose populations, to support applied research regarding the causes of chronic wasting disease and methods to control the further spread of the disease, and for other purposes. This bill requires the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service-Wildlife Services to support state and tribal efforts to address chronic wasting disease. The transmissible disease afflicts deer, elk, and moose populations. The agency must make grants to research centers to support efforts to expand and accelerate applied research on the disease. Land management agencies of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior must work cooperatively with states in researching the disease and implementing state response plans to reduce the spread and prevalence of the disease.

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Ron Kind (D)*,  Ralph Abraham (R),  Earl Blumenauer (D),  Suzanne Bonamici (D),  Sean Casten (D),  Gil Cisneros (D),  Jim Cooper (D),  Angie Craig (D),  Mike Gallagher (R),  Glenn Grothman (R),  Dusty Johnson (R),  Dan Kildee (D),  Andy Levin (D),  Zoe Lofgren (D),  Gwen Moore (D),  Mark Pocan (D),  F. James Sensenbrenner (R),  Pete Stauber (R),  Bryan Steil (R),  Tom Tiffany (R),  Peter Welch (D), 

Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research. (on 03/27/2019)

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