119-s1435

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1435 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 1435

 To prohibit the use of taxpayer dollars to support animal 
 experimentation in the laboratories of adversarial nations.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 April 10, 2025

Ms. Ernst (for herself and Mr. Schmitt) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
 Education, Labor, and Pensions

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 A BILL

 To prohibit the use of taxpayer dollars to support animal 
 experimentation in the laboratories of adversarial nations.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Accountability in Foreign Animal 
Research Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING RESEARCH ON ANIMALS IN CERTAIN FOREIGN 
 COUNTRIES.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services may 
not--

    (1) directly or indirectly conduct biomedical research or 
 experimentation that involves testing on vertebrate animals in 
 any facility, or through any entity, located in, or owned or 
 controlled, directly or indirectly, by--
        (A) any of the foreign countries specified in 
 subsection

    (b) ; or
        (B) such other foreign country that the Secretary 
 of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the 
 Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, 
 determines is a foreign country of concern for the 
 purposes of this Act; or

    (2) support, through grants, subgrants, contracts, 
 cooperative agreements, or other funding vehicles, biomedical 
 research or experimentation that involves testing on vertebrate 
 animals conducted by any entity based in a foreign country 
 referred to in paragraph

    (1) .

    (b) Foreign Countries Specified.--The foreign countries specified 
in this subsection are the following:

    (1) The People's Republic of China, including the Hong Kong 
 Special Administrative Region.

    (2) The Islamic Republic of Iran.

    (3) The Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

    (4) The Russian Federation.
            (c) Report on Addition to List of Foreign Countries.--

    (1) In general.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services 
 shall submit to the chairperson and ranking member of each of 
 the appropriate committees of Congress a report with respect to 
 each instance in which the Secretary makes a determination with 
 respect to a country under subsection

    (a)

    (1)
        (B) that contains a 
 detailed accounting of the Secretary's reasoning for such 
 determination.

    (2) Timing.--A report shall be submitted under paragraph

    (1) not later than 60 days after the date of an instance 
 described in such paragraph.

    (3) Appropriate committees of congress.--In this section, 
 the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
        (A) the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate;
        (B) the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
 Pensions of the Senate;
            (C) the Committee on Homeland Security and 
 Governmental Affairs of the Senate;
            (D) the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
 Representatives;
        (E) the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the 
 House of Representatives; and
        (F) the Committee on Homeland Security of the House 
 of Representatives.
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