CARGO Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1802 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1802

    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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 19, 2025

   Mr. Scott of Florida (for himself and Mr. Booker) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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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 
        $2,200,000,000 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) The lack of oversight described in paragraph (2) has 
        resulted in the mistreatment of animals used in research 
        projects performed outside the United States and funded by the 
        American public.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON AWARDING 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 by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Prohibition.--
            ``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
        this Act, the Director of NIH may not award any support, 
        including any grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or 
        technical assistance, for any activity or program that uses 
        live animals in research unless the research occurs in the 
        United States.
            ``(2) Definition of united states.--In paragraph (1), the 
        term `United States' includes--
                    ``(A) each State; and
                    ``(B) each territory and possession of the United 
                States.''.
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