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To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to add highly pathogenic avian influenza as a high priority research and extension area.
Summary
This bill would amend federal agricultural law to designate highly pathogenic avian influenza as a high-priority research and extension area. The bill would authorize federal research and extension grants to land-grant colleges and universities to study avian flu vaccines for poultry, including improving vaccine formulations, delivery mechanisms, and assessing market implications. The bill would also support research on enhanced biosecurity procedures for poultry producers, including evaluating training practices, improving farm-level interventions, and developing new disinfection methods.
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Sponsor (1)
4 cosponsors
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Sarah Mcbride’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION $28,000
- GOOGLE LLC $25,863
- NULL $17,300
- YOUNG CONAWAY STARGATT & TAYLOR LLP $16,225
- UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE $15,745
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Actions (2)
- Apr 10, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. · house
- Apr 10, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 10, 2025
Ms. McBride (for herself and Mr. Lawler) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture
A BILL
To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to add highly pathogenic avian influenza as a high priority research and extension area.
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 “Supporting Avian Virus Eradication Act” or the “SAVE Our Poultry Act”.
SEC. 2. ADDITION OF HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA AS A HIGH PRIORITY RESEARCH AND EXTENSION AREA.
Section 1672(d) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5925(d)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(21) Highly pathogenic avian influenza.—Research and extension grants may be made under this section to land-grant colleges and universities (as defined in section 1404 of National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3103)) to study highly pathogenic avian influenza for the purposes of—
“(A) developing and improving the efficacy of vaccines for poultry, including with respect to—
“(i) researching the effectiveness of such vaccines across poultry species;
“(ii) improving formulations of such vaccines;
“(iii) improving the delivery mechanisms for such vaccines; and
“(iv) assessing the potential implications of vaccination on domestic and international poultry markets, including trade and market access considerations; and
“(B) enhancing biosecurity procedures for poultry producers, including with respect to—
“(i) evaluating training and biosecurity practices;
“(ii) improving farm-level interventions; and
“(iii) developing new disinfection methods.”. <all>
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