Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that infrastructure spending bills should include development programs that recruit and train individuals from communities with high unemployment rates.
- Last Action
- 3/1/2017
Actions
- 2017-02-10Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
- 2017-02-10Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
- 2017-01-13Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
- 2017-01-03Referred 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.
- 2017-01-03Referred 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.
- 2017-01-03Referred 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.
- 2017-01-03Introduced in House
- 2017-01-03Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2017-01-03 (00)
Wildlife Veterinarians Employment and Training Act or the Wildlife VET Act
This bill authorizes the Department of the Interior to award grants to wildlife or veterinary institutions to create additional clinical and research positions for wildlife and zoological veterinarians. Preference must be given to institutions that will create positions in areas of need, including wildlife disease research and training, disease surveillance, ecology and wildlife population management, and conservation and management of the health of endangered, threatened, and sensitive species.
Interior must establish: (1) the Wildlife and Zoological Veterinary Workforce Loan Repayment Program to pay educational loans of eligible individuals for a doctoral degree in veterinary medicine or a graduate degree in veterinary medicine, and (2) the Wildlife and Zoological Veterinary Workforce Scholarship Program to award students enrolled in an accredited school or college of veterinary medicine scholarships. Those loans may be repaid and the awards may be given only if the recipient of the loan or the award agrees to serve for at least four consecutive years at a wildlife or veterinary institution as a wildlife or zoological veterinarian.
Interior must also: (1) establish a pilot program to award grants to accredited schools and colleges of veterinary medicine to develop or improve new or existing curricula that specialize in wildlife or zoological veterinary medicine, and (2) award grants to eligible wildlife or veterinary institutions to establish or expand training programs that will enhance the ability of a trainee to practice as a wildlife or zoological veterinarian.
Cosponsors (16)
- Jared Polis (D-CO)
- JOSE SERRANO (D-NY)
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)
- Kurt Schrader (D-OR)
- David Cicilline (D-RI)
- Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
- ELEANOR NORTON (D-DC)
- Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ)
- BENNIE THOMPSON (D-MS)
- MARCY KAPTUR (D-OH)
- NYDIA VELAZQUEZ (D-NY)
- Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH)
- Val Demings (D-FL)
- Steve Cohen (D-TN)
- Frederica Wilson (D-FL)
- Filemon Vela (D-TX)
Subjects
- Animal and plant health
- Education programs funding
- Endangered and threatened species
- Health personnel
- Medical education
- Medical research
- Student aid and college costs
- Veterinary medicine and animal diseases
- Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
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