SAFE Act of 2023

Subjects: Agriculture and Food


<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 901 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 901

To amend the Animal Health Protection Act to improve the prevention of 
         the spread of animal diseases, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 21, 2023

     Mr. Braun (for himself, Ms. Smith, Mr. Coons, and Mr. Wicker) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
           Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 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 
2023'' or the ``SAFE Act of 2023''.

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.--The Secretary, acting through the 
        Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 
        and the Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign 
        Agricultural Affairs, in coordination with the Administrator of 
        the Food Safety and Inspection Service, may preemptively 
        negotiate, to the extent practicable, regionalization 
        agreements regarding outbreaks of known animal disease threats 
        with the governments of countries with key export markets for 
        any animal, article, or associated means of conveyance from the 
        United States.
            ``(2) Research.--A negotiation carried out under paragraph 
        (1) is encouraged to take into account accepted global research 
        advances.''.
    (b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section--
            (1) limits the ability of the Secretary of Agriculture to 
        negotiate trade agreements; or
            (2) requires the Secretary of Agriculture to condition 
        other trade agreements on the inclusion of language relating to 
        regionalization as described in subsection (d)(1) of section 
        10405 of the Animal Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 3804).

SEC. 3. EXPORT LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION.

    The Secretary of Agriculture shall promulgate a regulation to 
require that, in the case of any language removed from the Import and 
Export Library of the Food Safety and Inspection Service, the 
Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service shall directly 
notify each State department of agriculture, each lead State agency for 
animal disease, and any entity that petitioned for the inclusion of 
that language of such removal not later than 3 days after such removal.
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