Federal Animal Research Accountability Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3295 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3295

  To amend the Public Health Service Act to improve the accuracy and 
transparency of animal use data collected by the National Institutes of 
 Health from entities that conduct biomedical and behavioral research 
                  with funds provided under such Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 8, 2025

Ms. Malliotakis (for herself, Mr. Davis of North Carolina, Mrs. Kiggans 
of Virginia, Ms. Titus, Mr. Fitzpatrick, and Mr. Carson) 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 improve the accuracy and 
transparency of animal use data collected by the National Institutes of 
 Health from entities that conduct biomedical and behavioral research 
                  with funds provided under such Act.

    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 ``Federal Animal Research 
Accountability Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. IMPROVING THE ACCURACY AND TRANSPARENCY OF ANIMAL USE DATA 
              COLLECTED BY THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH.

    (a) In General.--Section 495(b) of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 289d(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``and'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the 
                following:
            ``(D) file with the Director of NIH annually a form 
        indicating the total number of animals bred, housed, and used 
        by the research entity in the preceding fiscal year, that 
        includes, with respect to such total number--
                    ``(i) the common species names and the numbers of 
                each species upon which teaching, research, 
                experiments, or tests were conducted involving no pain, 
                distress, or use of pain-relieving drugs (including 
                research involving only routine procedures such as 
                injections, tattooing, and blood sampling);
                    ``(ii) the common species names and the numbers of 
                each species upon which teaching, research, 
                experiments, or tests were conducted involving 
                accompanying pain or distress to the animals and for 
                which appropriate anesthetic, analgesic, or 
                tranquilizing drugs were used;
                    ``(iii) the common species names and the numbers of 
                each species upon which teaching, research, 
                experiments, or tests were conducted involving 
                accompanying pain or distress to the animals and for 
                which the use of appropriate anesthetic, analgesic, or 
                tranquilizing drugs would have adversely affected the 
                procedures, results, or interpretation of the research; 
                and
                    ``(iv) the common species names and the numbers of 
                each species being bred, conditioned, or held for use 
                in teaching, research, experiments, or tests but not 
                yet used for such purposes.''; and
            (2) in the matter following paragraph (3), by adding at the 
        end the following: ``The Director of NIH shall make available 
        to each animal care committee of a research entity a form for 
        collecting the information described in subparagraph (D). Not 
        later than 3 months after such a form is filed pursuant to 
        subparagraph (D), the Director of NIH shall make the form 
        available online in a publicly accessible and searchable 
        database.''.
    (b) Delayed Applicability.--The amendments made by subsection (a) 
shall apply beginning on the date that is 2 years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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