Chronic Wasting Disease Support for States Act
Latest action · Apr 25, 2008 Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
Progress
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- IntroducedOct 16, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Chronic Wasting Disease Support for States Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish an official national database on chronic wasting disease for the surveillance and monitoring of data regarding chronic wasting disease in wild and captive cervid (member of the deer family) populations and other wildlife.
Requires such Secretary to: (1) develop a national surveillance and monitoring program to identify the rate of chronic wasting disease infection in deer and elk wild herds; (2) allocate funds for the development and implementation of management strategies to address chronic wasting disease; and (3) make grants to support research on chronic wasting disease.
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) develop a national surveillance and monitoring program to identify the rate of chronic wasting disease infection in captive deer and elk herds; (2) upgrade federal laboratories to facilitate timely processing of samples from the surveillance and monitoring programs and related epidemiological investigation; (3) expand and accelerate research on chronic wasting disease; and (4) increase the number and size of grants made to support such research.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 25, 2008Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
- Apr 25, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
- Apr 25, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
- Oct 18, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
- Oct 16, 2007Introduced in House
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Animals.
- Animal diseases
- Animals
- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
- Data banks
- Deer
- Economics and Public Finance
- Elk
- Environmental Protection
- Epidemiology
- Federal aid to research
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Health
- Health surveys
- Medical laboratories
- Medical research
- Medical statistics
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Research grants
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Veterinary medicine
- Wildlife conservation
- Wildlife management
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 16, 2007Introduced in House
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