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Requires quarterly inspections and public certification of foreign laboratories that receive U.S. Federal funds to perform animal research. The Secretary of Health and Human Services and NIH must establish the inspection and certification process, publish certificates of compliance, allow corrective actions, and may suspend or revoke NIH grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements for labs that do not come into compliance. The Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare will keep certificates publicly available. The requirement takes effect 180 days after enactment.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced March 25, 2025 by Eric Stephen Schmitt · Last progress March 25, 2025