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S 1916 .1916

December 17, 2007Begun and held atReferred to the Committeeity of Washington on EnergyThursday,

the fourth day of January, two thousand and Commerceseven

AN ACT An Act

To amend the Public Health Service Act to modify the program for the sanctuary system for surplus chimpanzees by terminating the authority for the removal of chimpanzees from the system for research 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 `Chimp Haven is Home Act'.

(a) In General- The first section 481C of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 287a-3a) (added by section 2 of Public Law 106-551) is amended in subsection (d)--

(1) in paragraph (2), in subparagraph (J), by striking `If any chimpanzee is removed' and all that follows; and

(2) in paragraph (3)--

(A) in subparagraph (A)--

(i) by striking clause (ii); and

(ii) by striking `except as provided' in the matter preceding clause (i) and all that follows through `behavioral studies' and inserting the following: `except that the chimpanzee may be used for noninvasive behavioral studies';

(B) by striking subparagraph (B);

(C) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (B); and

(D) in subparagraph (B) (as so redesignated), by striking `under subparagraphs (A) and (B)' and inserting `under subparagraph (A)'.

(b) Technical Correction- Part E of title IV of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 287 et seq.) is amended by redesignating the second section 481C (added by section 204(a) of Public Law 106-505) as section 481D.

PassedSpeaker of the Senate December 13, 2007.House of Representatives.

Attest: Vice President of the United States and

NANCY ERICKSON,President of the SenateSecretary.