Chronic Wasting Disease Support for States Act
Latest action · Apr 25, 2008 Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
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.
- 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.
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 Oct 16, 2007 |
| Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee | Referred Oct 18, 2007 | |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Oct 16, 2007 |
| Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Subcommittee | Referred Apr 25, 2008 | |
| Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee | Referred Apr 25, 2008 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 25, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
- Apr 25, 2008Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
- Apr 25, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
- Oct 18, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
- Oct 16, 2007Introduced in House
- Oct 16, 2007Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee 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.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To support further research by State departments of wildlife and agriculture, colleges and universities, and related research entities 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 additional State efforts to control the disease, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Chronic Wasting Disease Support for States Act
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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