Foreign Animal Disease Prevention, Surveillance, and Rapid Response Act of 2023

Foreign Animal Disease Prevention, Surveillance, and Rapid Response Act of 2023

This bill provides additional funding for Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) animal disease prevention and management programs and reauthorizes the programs through FY2028.

Specifically, the bill reauthorizes and provides additional funding for

• the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (a nationally coordinated network and partnership of federal, state, and university-associated animal health laboratories that provides animal health diagnostic testing to detect biological threats to the nation's food animals);
• the National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program (which allows APHIS to partner with states, tribes, producer organizations, universities, and others to carry out projects that enhance local, regional, and national capabilities to prevent, prepare for, and respond to animal disease outbreaks); and
• the National Animal Vaccine and Veterinary Countermeasures Bank (which allows the Department of Agriculture to stockpile animal vaccines and related products to use in the event of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease or other high-impact foreign animal diseases).

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3419 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3419

  To amend the Animal Health Protection Act to reauthorize the animal 
              disease prevention and management programs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 17, 2023

 Mr. Jackson of Texas (for himself, Ms. Craig, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Davis of 
North Carolina, and Mr. Costa) introduced the following bill; which was 
                referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Animal Health Protection Act to reauthorize the animal 
              disease prevention and management programs.

    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 ``Foreign Animal Disease Prevention, 
Surveillance, and Rapid Response Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF ANIMAL DISEASE PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT 
              PROGRAMS.

    (a) Mandatory Funding.--Section 10409A(d)(1) of the Animal Health 
Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 8308a(d)(1)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(1) Mandatory funding.--
                    ``(A) Fiscal years 2024 through 2028.--Of the funds 
                of the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Secretary 
                shall make available to carry out this section 
                $233,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 through 
                2028, of which--
                            ``(i) not less than $10,000,000 shall be 
                        made available for each such fiscal year to 
                        carry out subsection (a);
                            ``(ii) not less than $70,000,000 shall be 
                        made available for each such fiscal year to 
                        carry out subsection (b); and
                            ``(iii) not less than $153,000,000 shall be 
                        made available for each such fiscal year to 
                        carry out subsection (c).
                    ``(B) Subsequent fiscal years.--Of the funds of the 
                Commodity Credit Corporation, the Secretary shall make 
                available to carry out this section $30,000,000 for 
                fiscal year 2029 and each fiscal year thereafter, of 
                which not less than $18,000,000 shall be made available 
                for each of those fiscal years to carry out subsection 
                (b).''.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            (1) National animal health laboratory.--Section 
        10409A(d)(2)(A) of the Animal Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 
        8308a(d)(2)(A)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``$30,000,000'' and inserting 
                ``$45,000,000''; and
                    (B) by striking ``2019 through 2023'' and inserting 
                ``2024 through 2028''.
            (2) National animal disease preparedness and response 
        program; national animal vaccine and veterinary countermeasures 
        bank.--Section 10409A(d)(2)(B) of the Animal Health Protection 
        Act (7 U.S.C. 8308a(d)(2)(B)) is amended by striking ``2019 
        through 2023'' and inserting ``2024 through 2028''.
    (c) Availability and Purpose of Funding.--Section 10409A(e)(1) of 
the Animal Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 8308a(e)(1)) is amended by 
striking ``2019 through 2023'' and inserting ``2024 through 2028''.
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