CARGO Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1085 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1085

    To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the National 
   Institutes of Health from awarding any support for an activity or 
 program that uses live animals in research unless the research occurs 
             in the United States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 6, 2025

     Mr. Nehls (for himself, Ms. Titus, Ms. Norton, Mrs. Kim, Mr. 
Fitzpatrick, Mr. Davis of North Carolina, Ms. Malliotakis, Mr. Gooden, 
and Mr. Mackenzie) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the National 
   Institutes of Health from awarding any support for an activity or 
 program that uses live animals in research unless the research occurs 
             in the United States, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Cease Animal Research Grants 
Overseas Act of 2025'' or the ``CARGO Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) From fiscal year 2011 through fiscal year 2021, the 
        National Institutes of Health provided approximately $2.2 
        billion to foreign organizations for research projects 
        involving animals.
            (2) The National Institutes of Health does not conduct 
        inspections of foreign organizations, and these organizations 
        self-report information pertaining to animal welfare, creating 
        a risk that information will be misrepresented.
            (3) This lack of oversight has resulted in the mistreatment 
        of animals used in research projects performed outside the 
        United States and funded by the American public.

SEC. 3. NO NIH SUPPORT FOR USE OF LIVE ANIMALS IN RESEARCH BY PERSONS 
              OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

    Section 495 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289d) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsections (a)(3) and (c)(1)(A), by striking 
        ``subsection (b)'' each place it appears and inserting 
        ``subsection (c)'';
            (2) in subsection (b)(1) by striking ``subsection (a)(3)'' 
        and inserting ``subsection (b)(3)'';
            (3) in subsections (b)(1), (b)(3)(A), (b)(3)(C), (c)(1)(A), 
        and (d)(1), by striking ``subsection (a)'' each place it 
        appears and inserting ``subsection (b)'';
            (4) in subsection (e), by striking ``subsections (a) or 
        (c)'' and inserting ``subsection (b) or (d)'';
            (5) by redesignating subsections (a) through (e) (as 
        amended by this section) as subsections (b) through (f), 
        respectively; and
            (6) by inserting before subsection (b) (as so redesignated) 
        the following:
    ``(a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the 
National Institutes of Health may not award any support (including any 
grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or technical assistance) for 
any activity or program that uses live animals for research unless the 
research occurs in the United States.
    ``(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), the term `United States' 
includes, in addition to the several States, the District of Columbia 
and any territory or possession of the United States.''.
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