Animal Disease Surveillance and Detection Act of 2019
Latest action · Dec 4, 2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign 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.
- IntroducedNov 13, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Animal Disease Surveillance and Detection Act of 2019
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to establish an interagency task force to make recommendations regarding inspection requirements and detection protocols for preventing the transmission of animal diseases. The bill also requires the CPB to hire additional agriculture specialists, support staff, agriculture technicians, and canine teams for ports of entry.
Cosponsors 5
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 15, 2020 to Jan 29, 2020.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-AR | Eric A. "Rick" Crawford | Jan 15, 2020 | |
| R-IN | James R. Baird | Jan 15, 2020 | |
| R-KS | Roger Marshall | Jan 15, 2020 | |
| R-MS | Trent Kelly | Jan 15, 2020 | |
| D-TX | Henry Cuellar | Jan 29, 2020 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Homeland Security Committee | Referred Nov 13, 2019 |
| Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee | Referred Dec 4, 2019 | |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Nov 13, 2019 |
| Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Subcommittee | Referred Dec 4, 2019 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 4, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations.
- Dec 4, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
- Nov 13, 2019Introduced in House
- Nov 13, 2019Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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.
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
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 181, November 13, 2019, page H8827.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To direct the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish an interagency task force to examine animal disease transmission, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Animal Disease Surveillance and Detection Act of 2019
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 13, 2019Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
