KITTEN Act of 2018

Kittens In Traumatic Testing Ends Now Act of 2018 or the KITTEN Act of 2018

This bill amends the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit the Department of Agriculture from using cats in experiments that may cause pain or stress, unless the pain or stress is a result of a physical exam or training program.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5780 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5780

   To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to end the use of cats in 
                 experiments that cause pain or stress.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 11, 2018

  Mr. Bishop of Michigan (for himself and Mr. Panetta) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
   To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to end the use of cats in 
                 experiments that cause pain or stress.

    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 ``Kittens In Traumatic Testing Ends 
Now Act of 2018'' or the ``KITTEN Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON EXPERIMENTATION ON CATS.

    Section 14 of the Animal Welfare Act is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Any department, agency,'' and all that 
        follows through ``and (h)'';
            (2) by inserting the following:
    ``(a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), any 
department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States having 
laboratory animal facilities shall comply with the standards and other 
requirements promulgated by the Secretary for a research facility under 
subsections (a), (f), (g), and (h) of section 13.''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) Beginning not later than 90 days after the date of enactment 
of this subsection, in carrying out research, the Secretary may not 
purchase, breed, transport, house, feed, maintain, dispose of, or 
conduct experiments on cats as part of the conduct of any study that 
would subject cats to potentially painful or stressful procedures, 
including pain or stress that may be mitigated by anesthetics, 
analgesics, or tranquilizer drugs, except when such pain or stress is a 
result of a physical exam or training program.''.
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