Chronic Wasting Disease Management Act
- Last Action
- 3/27/2019
Actions
- 2019-03-27Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.
- 2019-03-27Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
- 2019-03-26Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
- 2019-03-06Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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.
- 2019-03-06Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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.
- 2019-03-06Introduced in House
- 2019-03-06Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2019-03-06 (00)
Chronic Wasting Disease Management Act
This bill requires the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service-Wildlife Services to support state and tribal efforts to address chronic wasting disease. The transmissible disease afflicts deer, elk, and moose populations.
The agency must make grants to research centers to support efforts to expand and accelerate applied research on the disease.
Land management agencies of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior must work cooperatively with states in researching the disease and implementing state response plans to reduce the spread and prevalence of the disease.
Cosponsors (20)
- F. SENSENBRENNER (R-WI)
- Peter Welch (D-VT)
- Glenn Grothman (R-WI)
- EARL BLUMENAUER (D-OR)
- Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR)
- Pete Stauber (R-MN)
- Mike Gallagher (R-WI)
- Angie Craig (D-MN)
- ZOE LOFGREN (D-CA)
- JAMES COOPER (D-TN)
- Andy Levin (D-MI)
- Gilbert Cisneros (D-CA)
- Sean Casten (D-IL)
- Daniel Kildee (D-MI)
- Ralph Abraham (R-LA)
- Dusty Johnson (R-SD)
- Bryan Steil (R-WI)
- Mark Pocan (D-WI)
- Gwen Moore (D-WI)
- Thomas Tiffany (R-WI)
Subjects
- Health programs administration and funding
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Mammals
- Neurological disorders
- Research administration and funding
- State and local government operations
- Veterinary medicine and animal diseases
- Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
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