Agroterrorism Prevention Act of 2005
Latest action · Jul 28, 2005 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
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.
- IntroducedJul 28, 2005
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Agroterrorism Prevention Act of 2005 - Amends federal criminal law to criminalize acts of agroterrorism (as defined by this Act).
Provides for related monitoring and intelligence enhancements.
Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security to expand and continue vulnerability assessments of the agriculture and food sectors.
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) assist states and counties develop and implement plans for agricultural disease prevention and recovery (such plans to be modeled after the state animal response team); (2) assist states develop related regional and national response plans; (3) establish a public awareness campaign for agricultural producers that emphasizes heightened biosecurity and agricultural disease anomaly reporting; (4) develop guidelines to improve the monitoring of human traffic, vehicles, and materials entering or leaving farm or ranch operations, and disseminate such guidelines to agricultural producers; (5) develop a National Veterinary Stockpile; and (6) develop a National Plant Disease Recovery System.
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to report respecting: (1) the need to modernize or replace federal animal and plant disease laboratories: and (2) state capability as first responders to animal diseases that threaten U.S. agriculture.
States that if a livestock or poultry contract provides for arbitration, arbitration may be used to settle a controversy only if, after the controversy arises, both parties consent in writing to use arbitration to settle the controversy.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jul 28, 2005.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-IA | Chuck Grassley | Original | Jul 28, 2005 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 28, 2005Introduced in Senate
- Jul 28, 2005Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
- Jul 28, 2005Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9296-9297)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
- Agricultural education
- Agricultural estimating and reporting
- Agriculture and Food
- Animal diseases
- Animals
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Biological warfare
- Capital punishment
- Commerce
- Commercial arbitration
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Education
- Emergency Management
- Emergency medicine
- Farmers
- Farms
- Food safety
- Germplasm resources
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Governmental investigations
- Health
- Health planning
- Health surveys
- Laboratories
- Livestock
- Plant diseases
- Poultry
- Preventive medicine
- Produce trade
- Research and development facilities
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Seeds
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)
- Terrorism
- Vaccines
- Veterinary medicine
- Virus diseases
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 28, 2005Introduced in Senate
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