Chronic Wasting Disease Support for States Act

To support further research by State departments of wildlife and agriculture, colleges and universities, and related research entities regarding the causes of chronic wasting disease and methods to control the further spread of the disease in deer and elk herds, to monitor the incidence of the disease, to support additional State efforts to control the disease, and for other purposes.

10/16/2007--Introduced.
Chronic Wasting Disease Support for States Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish an official national database on chronic wasting disease for the surveillance and monitoring of data regarding chronic wasting disease in wild and captive cervid (member of the deer family) populations and other wildlife. Requires such Secretary to:
(1) develop a national surveillance and monitoring program to identify the rate of chronic wasting disease infection in deer and elk wild herds;
(2) allocate funds for the development and implementation of management strategies to address chronic wasting disease; and
(3) make grants to support research on chronic wasting disease. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to:
(1) develop a national surveillance and monitoring program to identify the rate of chronic wasting disease infection in captive deer and elk herds;
(2) upgrade federal laboratories to facilitate timely processing of samples from the surveillance and monitoring programs and related epidemiological investigation;
(3) expand and accelerate research on chronic wasting disease; and
(4) increase the number and size of grants made to support such research.


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Sponsor

• Rep. John Salazar [D, CO-3]

Committees

• House Agriculture
• 4 more
  • House Natural Resources
  • House Natural Resources
  • House Agriculture
  • House Agriculture
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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
October 16, 2007

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• Apr 25, 2008: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
• Apr 25, 2008: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
• Apr 25, 2008: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
• Oct 18, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
• Oct 16, 2007: Referred to House Agriculture
• Oct 16, 2007: Referred to House Natural Resources
• Oct 16, 2007: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• Introduced on Oct 16, 2007.

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Related Issue Areas:

• Wildlife management
• Wildlife conservation
• Veterinary medicine
• Technology
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• Science policy
• Research grants
• Natural resources
• Medicine
• Medical statistics
• Medical research
• Medical laboratories
• Medical care
• Health surveys
• Government paperwork
• Government information
• Federal aid to research
• Epidemiology
• Environmental protection
• Elk
• Deer
• Data banks
• Budgets
• Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
• Animal diseases
• Animals

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