HR 1243 · 115th Congress 2017–2019, ended

BEST Practices Act

Introduced Feb 28, 2017 Originated House Sponsor Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. D-GA

Latest action · Mar 23, 2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities.

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.

IntroducedFeb 28, 2017
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Battlefield Excellence through Superior Training Practices Act or the BEST Practices Act

This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD), by no later than: (1) October 1, 2020, to complete the development, testing, and validation of human-based training methods for training members of the Armed Forces in the treatment of combat trauma injuries, with the goal of replacing live animal-based training methods; and (2) October 1, 2022, to use only use human-based training methods for such purposes. No animals may be used in such training after the latter date.

DOD shall submit an annual report to Congress regarding the development and implementation of the human-based training methods.

Cosponsors 150

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 28, 2017 to Sep 25, 2018; 35 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-RI	David N. Cicilline	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-CA	Jackie Speier	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-CT	James A. Himes	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-MD	Jamie Raskin	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-CO	Jared Polis	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-MN	Keith Ellison	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-WI	Mark Pocan	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-PA	Matt Cartwright	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-CA	Nanette Diaz Barragán	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-MA	Niki Tsongas	Original	Feb 28, 2017
R-IL	Peter J. Roskam	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-MN	Richard M. Nolan	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro	Original	Feb 28, 2017
R-PA	Ryan A. Costello	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-CA	Scott H. Peters	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-TN	Steve Cohen	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-CA	Ted Lieu	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch	Original	Feb 28, 2017
R-PA	Tom Marino	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-CA	Tony Cárdenas	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke	Original	Feb 28, 2017
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Mar 7, 2017
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Mar 7, 2017
R-PA	Brian K. Fitzpatrick		Mar 7, 2017
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Mar 7, 2017
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		Mar 7, 2017
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Mar 7, 2017
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Mar 7, 2017
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Mar 7, 2017
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Mar 7, 2017
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle		Mar 9, 2017
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Mar 9, 2017
R-NY	Daniel M. Donovan, Jr.		Mar 9, 2017
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Mar 9, 2017
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Mar 9, 2017
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier		Mar 9, 2017
D-VT	Peter Welch		Mar 9, 2017
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Mar 9, 2017
D-NV	Dina Titus		Mar 10, 2017
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III		Mar 10, 2017
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Mar 10, 2017
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Mar 10, 2017
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		Mar 10, 2017
D-MA	William R. Keating		Mar 10, 2017
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Mar 17, 2017
D-NV	Jacky Rosen		Mar 17, 2017
D-NJ	Josh Gottheimer		Mar 17, 2017
D-CA	Judy Chu		Mar 17, 2017
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Mar 17, 2017
D-CA	Mark Takano		Mar 21, 2017
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Mar 22, 2017
D-NV	Ruben J. Kihuen		Mar 22, 2017
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Apr 3, 2017
R-NY	John Katko		Apr 3, 2017
D-CA	Salud O. Carbajal		Apr 5, 2017
D-NY	Thomas R. Suozzi		Apr 5, 2017
R-NY	Claudia Tenney		Apr 12, 2017
D-TX	Marc A. Veasey		Apr 12, 2017
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Apr 25, 2017
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries		Apr 25, 2017
D-MD	John P. Sarbanes		Apr 25, 2017
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Apr 25, 2017
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Apr 25, 2017
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Apr 25, 2017
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.		Apr 28, 2017
R-PA	Lloyd Smucker		Apr 28, 2017
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Apr 28, 2017
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		May 2, 2017
D-CT	Elizabeth H. Esty		May 2, 2017
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		May 2, 2017
D-TX	Gene Green		May 2, 2017
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		May 2, 2017
D-CA	Jim Costa		May 2, 2017
D-CA	Ro Khanna		May 2, 2017
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal		May 4, 2017
D-CA	J. Luis Correa		May 4, 2017
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		May 16, 2017
D-CA	Jared Huffman		May 16, 2017
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		May 18, 2017
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		May 18, 2017
D-IL	Bill Foster		Jun 2, 2017
R-FL	Brian J. Mast		Jun 2, 2017
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.		Jun 2, 2017
D-GA	David Scott		Jun 6, 2017
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Jun 6, 2017
D-NC	David E. Price		Jun 8, 2017
D-DE	Lisa Blunt Rochester		Jun 12, 2017
D-NY	Grace Meng		Jun 16, 2017
R-NV	Mark E. Amodei		Jun 16, 2017
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Jun 22, 2017
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Jun 22, 2017
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Jun 27, 2017
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Jul 11, 2017
D-IL	Raja Krishnamoorthi		Jul 11, 2017
R-FL	Carlos Curbelo		Jul 12, 2017
D-FL	Charlie Crist		Jul 12, 2017
D-FL	Darren Soto		Jul 12, 2017
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Jul 12, 2017
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Aug 1, 2017
D-FL	Stephanie N. Murphy		Aug 1, 2017
D-TX	Vicente Gonzalez		Aug 1, 2017
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Aug 25, 2017
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Aug 25, 2017
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		Sep 1, 2017
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman		Sep 7, 2017
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene		Oct 10, 2017
D-CA	Jimmy Gomez		Oct 24, 2017
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Oct 31, 2017
D-IA	David Loebsack		Nov 1, 2017
D-PA	Dwight Evans		Nov 1, 2017
D-WA	Pramila Jayapal		Nov 6, 2017
R-CA	Edward R. Royce		Nov 13, 2017
R-NY	Lee M. Zeldin		Nov 13, 2017
D-NY	Brian Higgins		Nov 21, 2017
R-IA	David Young		Nov 21, 2017
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Nov 21, 2017
D-IL	Bradley Scott Schneider		Nov 28, 2017
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Nov 28, 2017
D-NY	Kathleen M. Rice		Nov 29, 2017
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Nov 29, 2017
D-CA	Norma J. Torres		Dec 5, 2017
R-NY	Chris Collins		Dec 14, 2017
D-NM	Michelle Lujan Grisham		Dec 14, 2017
D-HI	Colleen Hanabusa		Dec 18, 2017
D-HI	Tulsi Gabbard		Jan 10, 2018
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Mar 5, 2018
D-IN	André Carson		Mar 9, 2018
D-TX	Joaquin Castro		Mar 13, 2018
D-IL	Robin L. Kelly		Mar 13, 2018
R-CO	Scott R. Tipton		Mar 13, 2018
D-MP	Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan		Apr 23, 2018
D-WA	Rick Larsen		May 8, 2018
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		May 21, 2018
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		May 21, 2018
R-PA	Glenn Thompson		Jun 1, 2018
D-CA	Karen Bass		Sep 25, 2018

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Armed Services Committee	Referred Feb 28, 2017
	Intelligence and Special Operations Subcommittee	Referred Mar 23, 2017

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 23, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities.
Feb 28, 2017Introduced in House
Feb 28, 2017Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.

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.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8 (Clauses 1, 14, and 18), which grants Congress the power to provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; to make rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; and to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 35, February 28, 2017, page H1392.

Related bills 2

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 498	BEST Practices Act	Related bill	Mar 2, 2017
HR 1095	BEST Practices Act	Reintroduction of	Aug 13, 2015

Titles 3

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title 10, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Defense to use only human-based methods for training members of the Armed Forces in the treatment of severe combat injuries.
Short Titles as Introduced: BEST Practices Act; Battlefield Excellence through Superior Training Practices Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Feb 28, 2017Introduced in House

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