Chronic Wasting Disease Support for States Act of 2002
Latest action · Jun 5, 2002 Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 22, 2002
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish and maintain the official national database for surveillance and monitoring data regarding chronic wasting disease. Makes the database available to Federal and State agencies, Indian tribes, foreign governments, institutions of higher education, and international wildlife authorities.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior (through the U.S. Geological Survey) and the Secretary of Agriculture (through the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) to develop surveillance and monitoring programs to identify: (1) the rate of infection; (2) the cause and extent of the spread of the disease; and (3) areas promoting spread of the disease. Requires the Secretaries to cooperate with State and tribal agencies in developing the monitoring programs. Authorizes the Secretaries to establish standards for the collection and assessment of data.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to allocate funds to State and tribal agencies for developing and implementing disease management strategies based upon: (1) the relative scope of incidence of the disease; (2) expenditures on disease management; (3) comprehensive and integrated programs for disease management between wildlife and agricultural agencies; and (4) rapid response to outbreaks.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior (through the U.S. Geological Survey) to expand and accelerate research on the disease.
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture: (1) to provide for the upgrading of Federal laboratories approved to process samples from the surveillance and monitoring programs; and (2) expand and accelerate research on the disease through the Agricultural Research Service and Cooperative State Research grant programs.
Cosponsors 20
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 22, 2002 to Sep 9, 2002; 2 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-WI | Mark Green | Original | May 22, 2002 |
| R-WI | Paul D. Ryan | Original | May 22, 2002 |
| D-WI | Gerald D. Kleczka | May 23, 2002 | |
| R-CO | Thomas G. Tancredo | May 23, 2002 | |
| D-WI | Thomas M. Barrett | May 23, 2002 | |
| R-WI | F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. | Jun 4, 2002 | |
| D-PA | Paul E. Kanjorski | Jun 4, 2002 | |
| D-WI | Tammy Baldwin | Jun 4, 2002 | |
| R-WI | Thomas E. Petri | Jun 4, 2002 | |
| R-NE | Tom Osborne | Jun 4, 2002 | |
| R-WY | Barbara Cubin | Jun 5, 2002 | |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Jun 11, 2002 | |
| D-MI | Dale E. Kildee | Jun 11, 2002 | |
| R-PA | Melissa A. Hart | Jun 11, 2002 | |
| R-PA | Phil English | Jun 11, 2002 | |
| R-PA | John E. Peterson | Jun 12, 2002 | |
| R-UT | James V. Hansen | Jun 19, 2002 | |
| R-MI | Nick Smith | Jun 19, 2002 | |
| R-NY | John M. McHugh | Jun 24, 2002 | |
| R-MN | Mark R. Kennedy | Sep 9, 2002 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred May 22, 2002 |
| Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee | Referred Jun 3, 2002 | |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred May 22, 2002 |
| Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee | Referred Jun 4, 2002 | |
| Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee | Referred Jun 4, 2002 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 5, 2002Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
- Jun 4, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
- Jun 4, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
- Jun 3, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
- May 22, 2002Introduced in House
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H5092 | Mark Green R-WI | Jul 23, 2002 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 107-117 | CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE121 pages | Natural Resources Committee | May 16, 2002 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide for a multi-agency cooperative effort to encourage further research regarding the causes of chronic wasting disease and methods to control the further spread of the disease in deer and elk herds, to monitor the incidence of the disease, to support State efforts to control the disease, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Chronic Wasting Disease Support for States Act of 2002
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Animals.
- Administrative procedure
- Agricultural estimating and reporting
- Agricultural extension work
- Agricultural research
- Agriculture and Food
- Animal diseases
- Animal genetics
- Animals
- Brain diseases
- Communicable diseases
- Data banks
- Deer
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of the Interior
- Economics and Public Finance
- Elk
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental research
- Epidemiology
- Federal aid to Indians
- Federal aid to medical research
- Genetic research
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Health
- Health information systems
- Health surveys
- Indian lands
- International Affairs
- International cooperation
- Law
- Medical laboratories
- Medical research
- Medical statistics
- Medical tests
- Minorities
- Nervous system diseases
- Preventive medicine
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Veterinary medicine
- Wildlife
- Wildlife conservation
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 22, 2002Introduced in House
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