plant-sourced protein in order to minimize human 
reliance on the live and fresh wildlife trade; 
(2) support foreign governments to— 
(A) transition from the sale of such wildlife 
for human consumption in markets and res-
taurants to alternate protein sources; and 
(B) ban the commercial trade of such wild-
life, except for the meat of game species— 
(i) traded in markets in countries with 
effective implementation and enforcement 
of scientifically based, nationally imple-
mented policies and legislation for proc-
essing, transport, trade, marketing; and 
(ii) sold after being slaughtered and 
processed under sanitary conditions; and 
(3) consider the needs of indigenous people and 
local communities dependent on such wildlife for nu-
tritional needs and food security. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis-
trator’’ means the Administrator of the United 
States Agency for International Development. 
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(2) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 
the Committee on Appropriations in the House 
of Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on Appropriations in the 
Senate. 
(3) COMMERCIAL WILDLIFE TRADE.—The term 
‘‘commercial wildlife trade’’ means trade in wildlife 
can be considered as commercial when its purpose is 
to obtain economic benefit, whether in cash or other-
wise, and is directed toward sale, resale, exchange, 
or any other form of economic use or benefit. 
(4) INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.—The 
term ‘‘institution of higher education’’ has the 
meaning given the term in section 101(a) of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a)). 
(5) LIVE WILDLIFE MARKET.—The term ‘‘live 
wildlife market’’ means a commercial market that 
sells, processes, or slaughters live or fresh wildlife 
for human consumption in markets or restaurants, 
irrespective of whether such wildlife originated in the 
wild or in a captive situation. 
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(6) ONE
HEALTH.—The term ‘‘One Health’’ 
means a collaborative, multi-sectoral, and trans-dis-
ciplinary approach to achieving optimal health out-
comes that recognizes the interconnection between— 
(A) people, wildlife, and plants; and 
(B) the environment shared by such peo-
ple, wildlife, and plants. 
(7) OUTBREAK.—The occurrence of disease 
cases in excess of normal expectancy. 
(8) PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY.—The term 
‘‘public health emergency’’ means the public health 
emergency declared by the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services pursuant to section 319 of the Pub-
lic Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d) on January 
31, 2020, with respect to COVID–19. 
(9) SPILLOVER EVENTS.—The term ‘‘spillover 
events’’ means the transmission of a pathogen from 
one species to another. 
(10) TASK FORCE.—The term ‘‘Task Force’’ 
means the Global Zoonotic Disease Task Force es-
tablished under section 6(a). 
(11) USAID.—The term ‘‘USAID’’ means the 
United States Agency for International Develop-
ment. 
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(12) WILDLIFE.—The term ‘‘wildlife’’ means 
mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians of wild or-
igin, whether removed directly from the wild or born 
or bred in captivity. 
(13) ZOONOTIC DISEASE.—The term ‘‘zoonotic 
disease’’ means any disease that is naturally trans-
missible between vertebrate wildlife and humans. 
SEC. 4. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) The majority of recent emerging infectious 
diseases have originated in wildlife. 
(2) There is a rise in zoonotic spillover events 
and outbreaks of such diseases. 
(3) This rise in such spillover events and out-
breaks relates to the increased interaction between 
human and wildlife. 
(4) There is a rise in interaction between 
human and wildlife related to deforestation, habitat 
degradation, and expansion into the habitat of such 
wildlife. 
(5) A serious risk factor for spillover events re-
lates to the collection, production, commercial trade, 
and sale of wildlife for human consumption. 
(6) Such a risk factor is increased if it involves 
wildlife that— 
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(A) does not ordinarily interact with hu-
mans; or 
(B) lives under a stressful condition as 
such condition exacerbates the shedding of 
zoonotic pathogens. 
(7) Markets for such wildlife to be sold for 
human consumption are found in many countries. 
(8) In some local, rural communities, such wild-
life is the only accessible source of high quality nu-
trition. 
(9) The public health emergency is an example 
of the human, economic, and security costs of global 
pandemics and regional epidemics of zoonotic dis-
eases and emerging infectious diseases. 
(10) The public health emergency may result 
in— 
(A) trillions of dollars in damage to the 
economy of the United States; and 
(B) hundreds of thousands of deaths of 
citizens. 
(11) PREDICT and PREDICT–2, previous 
zoonotic disease prevention programs, resulted in co-
operation over 10 years with more than 60 countries 
to strengthen zoonotic pathogen surveillance and 
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identified at least 931 novel virus species from 
145,000 samples of wildlife, livestock, and humans. 
SEC. 5. UNITED STATES POLICY TOWARD LIVE AND FRESH 
WILDLIFE MARKETS FOR HUMAN CONSUMP-
TION. 
The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Ad-
ministrator and the Director of the United States Fish 
and Wildlife Service, shall work with governments, multi-
lateral entities, intergovernmental organizations, inter-
national partners, and non-governmental organizations— 
(1) to work through existing treaties, conven-
tions, and agreements to develop a new protocol to 
close live wildlife markets and end commercial wild-
life trade for human consumption; 
(2) expand combating wildlife trafficking pro-
grams to support enforcement of the closure of such 
markets and the end of such trade by— 
(A) providing assistance to improve law en-
forcement; 
(B) detecting and deterring the illegal im-
port, transit, and export of wildlife; 
(C) strengthening such programs to assist 
countries through legal reform; and 
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(D) improving information sharing and en-
hancing capabilities of participating foreign 
governments; 
(3) reduce the demand for the human consump-
tion of wildlife by— 
(A) supporting targeted social marketing 
campaigns to change the behavior of wildlife 
consumers; and 
(B) increasing consumer access to afford-
able, culturally appropriate, and sustainable 
produced alternative animal source foods, in 
areas where wildlife is a dietary necessity; 
(4) to minimize the interaction between humans 
and wildlife in order to prevent the degradation of 
intact ecosystems with the goal of protecting and re-
storing the integrity of such ecosystems by— 
(A) supporting Indigenous People and local 
communities to continue their effective steward-
ship of their intact traditional territories; 
(B) supporting establishment and effective 
management of protected areas, prioritizing 
highly intact areas; 
(C) halting industrial scale degradation, 
deforestation, and fragmentation of intact eco-
systems, including by private sector entities and 
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multilateral development financial institutions; 
and 
(D) halting extractive industries practices 
that encroach into nature strongholds and in-
crease human-wildlife interfaces where spillover 
events occur and can result in zoonotic disease 
outbreaks; 
(5) offering alternative livelihood and worker 
training programs and enterprise development for 
local communities previously engaged in the com-
mercial wildlife trade for human consumption; and 
(6) ensuring that the rights of Indigenous Peo-
ples and local communities, are respected and their 
authority to exercise these rights is protected. 
SEC. 6. GLOBAL ZOONOTIC DISEASE TASK FORCE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established a task 
force to be known as the ‘‘Global Zoonotic Disease Task 
Force’’. 
(b) DUTIES OF TASK FORCE.—The duties of the 
Task Force shall be to— 
(1) ensure an integrated response to the early 
detection, prevention, preparedness, and response 
across the Federal Government and globally to a 
global zoonotic disease spillover or outbreak; 
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(2) develop and publish, on a publicly accessible 
website, a global biosecurity zoonotic disease plan 
not later than one year after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act that leverages public health, wildlife 
health, and livestock veterinary expertise to coordi-
nate zoonotic disease surveillance internationally, in-
cluding support for One Health institutions around 
the world that can prevent and provide early detec-
tion of zoonotic outbreaks; and 
(3) expanding the scope of the implementation 
of the White House’s Global Health Security Strat-
egy to more robustly respond to zoonotic disease in-
vestigations and outbreaks by establishing a ten-year 
strategy with specific Federal Government inter-
national goals, priorities, and timelines for action, 
including to— 
(A) recommend policy actions and mecha-
nisms in developing countries to reduce the risk 
of zoonotic disease emergence and transmission, 
including coordinating a whole of government 
response to live and fresh wildlife market clo-
sures and ending the global trade in live and 
fresh wildlife for human consumption; 
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(B) identify new mandates, authorities, 
and incentives needed to strengthen the global 
zoonotic disease plan under paragraph (1); and 
(C) prioritize engagement in programs that 
target countries with threat of spillover derived 
from high levels of human expansion into wild 
places for land conversion and extractive indus-
tries, and where remote wildlife protected areas 
and corridors must be protected. 
(c) MEMBERSHIP.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The members of the task 
force established pursuant to subsection (a) shall be 
composed of representatives from each of the fol-
lowing agencies: 
(A) One permanent Chairperson at the 
level of Deputy Assistant Secretary or above 
from the following agencies, to rotate every two 
years in an order to be determined by the Ad-
ministrator: 
(i) The Animal and Plant Health In-
spection Service of the Department of Ag-
riculture. 
(ii) The Department of Health and 
Human Services or the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention. 
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(iii) The Department of the Interior 
or the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service. 
(iv) The Department of State or the 
United States Agency for International 
Development. 
(v) The National Security Council. 
(B) At least 13 additional members, with 
at least one from each of the following agencies: 
(i) The Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention. 
(ii) The Department of Agriculture. 
(iii) The Department of Defense. 
(iv) The Department of State. 
(v) The Environmental Protection 
Agency. 
(vi) The National Science Foundation. 
(vii) 
The 
National 
Institutes 
of 
Health. 
(viii) The National Institute of Stand-
ards and Technology. 
(ix) The Office of Science and Tech-
nology Policy. 
(x) The United States Agency for 
International Development. 
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(xi) The United States Fish and Wild-
life Service. 
(xii) U.S. Customs and Border Pro-
tection. 
(xiii) U.S. Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement. 
(2) TIMING OF APPOINTMENTS.—Appointments 
to the Task Force shall be made not later than 30 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(3) TERMS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Each member shall be 
appointed for a term of 2 years. 
(B) VACANCIES.—Any member appointed 
to fill a vacancy occurring before the expiration 
of the term for which the member’s predecessor 
was appointed shall be appointed only for the 
remainder of that term. A member may serve 
after the expiration of that term until a suc-
cessor has been appointed. 
(d) MEETING.— 
(1) INITIAL MEETING.—The Task Force shall 
hold its initial meeting not later than 45 days after 
the final appointment of all members under sub-
section (b)(2). 
(2) MEETINGS.— 
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(A) IN GENERAL.—The Task Force shall 
meet at the call of the Chairperson. 
(B) QUORUM.—Eight members of the 
Task Force shall constitute a quorum, but a 
lesser number may hold hearings. 
(e) COMPENSATION.— 
(1) PROHIBITION OF COMPENSATION.—Except 
as provided in paragraph (2), members of the Task 
Force may not receive additional pay, allowances, or 
benefits by reason of their service on the Task 
Force. 
(2) TRAVEL
EXPENSES.—Each member shall 
receive travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of 
subsistence, in accordance with applicable provisions 
under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United 
States Code. 
(f) REPORTS.— 
(1) REPORT TO TASK FORCE.—Not later than 
6 months after the enactment of this act and annu-
ally thereafter, the Federal agencies listed in section 
6(b), shall submit a report to the Task Force con-
taining a detailed statement with respect to the re-
sults of any programming within their agencies that 
addresses the goals of zoonotic disease prevention. 
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(2) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 12 
months after the date of the enactment of this Act 
and annually thereafter, the Task Force shall submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees and the 
National Security Advisor a report containing a de-
tailed statement of the recommendations of the 
Council pursuant to subsection (b). 
(g) FACA.—Section 14(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Ad-
visory Committee Act shall not apply to the Task Force. 
This task force shall be authorized for seven years after 
the enactment of this Act, and up to an additional two 
years at the discretion of the Task Force Chair. 
SEC. 7. PREVENTING OUTBREAKS OF ZOONOTIC DISEASES. 
(a) INTEGRATED ZOONOTIC DISEASES PROGRAM.— 
There is authorized an integrated zoonotic diseases pro-
gram within the United States Agency for International 
Development’s global health security programs, led by the 
Administrator, in consultation with the Director for the 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other rel-
evant Federal agencies, to prevent spillover events, 
epidemics, and pandemics through the following activities: 
(1) Partnering with a consortium that possesses 
the following technical capabilities: 
(A) Multidisciplinary zoological institution 
with experience in global health surveillance, 
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combating wildlife trafficking, and global con-
servation protected area management. 
(B) Institutions of higher education with 
veterinary and public health expertise. 
(C) Institutions with public health exper-
tise. 
(2) Implementing programs that expand on the 
results of USAID emerging pandemic threat out-
comes 
from 
PREDICT 
and 
PREDICT–2 
to 
prioritize the following activities: 
(A) Utilizing coordinated information and 
data sharing platforms, including information 
related to biosecurity threats, in ongoing and 
future research. 
(B) Conducting One Health zoonotic re-
search at human-wildlife interfaces. 
(C) Conducting One Health research into 
known and novel zoonotic pathogen detection. 
(D) Conducting surveillance, including bio-
security surveillance, of priority and unknown 
zoonotic diseases and the transmission of such 
diseases. 
(E) Preventing spillover events of zoonotic 
diseases. 
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(F) Investing in frontline diagnostic capa-
bility at points of contact. 
(G) Understanding global legal and illegal 
wildlife trade routes, value chains, and the im-
pacts of biodiversity loss and land-use change 
on human-wildlife interfaces. 
(H) Utilizing existing One Health trained 
workforce in developing countries to identify 
high risk or reoccurring spillover event locations 
and concentrate capacity and functionality at 
such locations. 
(I) Continuing to train a One Health work-
force in developing countries to prevent and re-
spond to disease outbreaks in animals and hu-
mans, including training protected area man-
agers in disease collection technology linked to 
existing data sharing platforms. 
(b) TERMINATION.—The integrated zoonotic diseases 
program authorized under this section shall terminate on 
the date that is ten years after the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
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SEC. 8. USAID MULTISECTORAL STRATEGY FOR FOOD SE-
CURITY, 
GLOBAL 
HEALTH, 
BIODIVERSITY, 
AND REDUCING DEMAND FOR WILDLIFE FOR 
HUMAN CONSUMPTION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator shall develop, 
and publish on a publicly accessible website, a multisec-
toral strategy for food security, global health, and bio-
diversity protection and shall include information about 
zoonotic disease surveillance in the reports required by 
section 406(b) of the Coronavirus Preparedness and Re-
sponse Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020. 
(b) MULTISECTORAL
STRATEGY.—The Adminis-
trator of the United States Agency for International De-
velopment (USAID), through sectoral and regional bu-
reaus, shall develop a multisectoral strategy to integrate 
and mitigate risks of zoonotic disease emergence and 
spread, food insecurity, biodiversity conservation, and 
wildlife and habitat destruction. The strategy shall include 
participation of the following: 
(1) Bureau for Africa. 
(2) Bureau for Asia. 
(3) Bureau for Economic Growth, Education, 
and Environment. 
(4) Bureau for Global Health. 
(5) Bureau for Latin America and the 
Carribean. 
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