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To amend the Animal Health Protection Act to improve the prevention of the spread of animal diseases, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill authorizes U.S. agriculture officials to negotiate advance agreements with trading partner countries on how to handle animal disease outbreaks. The agreements would use tools like regionalization and zoning to limit trade disruption when diseases occur, rather than imposing blanket export bans. The negotiations involve the Agriculture Department, the Trade Representative, and food safety officials working together with key export markets. The bill does not require the Trade Representative to tie these animal disease agreements to other trade deals, and does not limit their ability to negotiate separately.
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Sponsor (1)
3 cosponsors
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Randy Feenstra’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $38,384
- MARQUIS MANAGEMENT INC. $21,800
- BGR GROUP $15,800
- DOLL DISTRIBUTING $13,700
- FRONTIER BANK $13,450
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Actions (2)
- Apr 28, 2025 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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. · house
- Apr 28, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 28, 2025
Mr. Feenstra (for himself and Mr. Panetta) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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
A BILL
To amend the Animal Health Protection Act to improve the prevention of the spread of animal diseases, 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 “Safe American Food Exports Act of 2025” or the “SAFE Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. ENGAGEMENT WITH KEY EXPORT MARKETS.
(a) In General.—Section 10405 of the Animal Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 8304) is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and
(2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following:
“(d) Engagement With Key Export Markets.—
“(1) In general.—To reduce the impact of animal disease outbreaks on United States exports, the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, and the Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service, in consultation with the United States Trade Representative, is authorized to negotiate in advance, to the extent practicable, regionalization, zoning, compartmentalization, and other agreements regarding outbreaks of known animal disease threats of trade significance with the governments of countries with export markets for livestock animals or animal products from the United States.
“(2) Research.—A negotiation carried out under paragraph
(1) should seek to take into account accepted global research advances.”.
(b) Rule of Construction.—Nothing in this section shall be construed—
(1) to limit the ability of the United States Trade Representative to negotiate trade agreements; or
(2) to require the United States Trade Representative to condition other trade agreements on the inclusion of language relating to reducing the impact of animal disease outbreaks on United States exports, as described in subsection (d)(1) of section 10405 of the Animal Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 3804) (as inserted by subsection (a)(2)). <all>
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