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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3295 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to improve the accuracy and trans-
parency of animal use data collected by the National Institutes of Health 
from entities that conduct biomedical and behavioral research with funds 
provided under such Act. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 8, 2025 
Ms. MALLIOTAKIS (for herself, Mr. DAVIS of North Carolina, Mrs. KIGGANS 
of Virginia, Ms. TITUS, Mr. FITZPATRICK, and Mr. CARSON) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to improve the 
accuracy and transparency of animal use data collected 
by the National Institutes of Health from entities that 
conduct biomedical and behavioral research with funds 
provided under such Act. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Animal Re-
search Accountability Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. IMPROVING THE ACCURACY AND TRANSPARENCY 
OF ANIMAL USE DATA COLLECTED BY THE 
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 495(b) of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289d(b)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (3)— 
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(B) in subparagraph (C), by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) 
the following: 
‘‘(D) file with the Director of NIH annually a 
form indicating the total number of animals bred, 
housed, and used by the research entity in the pre-
ceding fiscal year, that includes, with respect to such 
total number— 
‘‘(i) the common species names and the 
numbers of each species upon which teaching, 
research, experiments, or tests were conducted 
involving no pain, distress, or use of pain-reliev-
ing drugs (including research involving only 
routine procedures such as injections, tattooing, 
and blood sampling); 
‘‘(ii) the common species names and the 
numbers of each species upon which teaching, 
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research, experiments, or tests were conducted 
involving accompanying pain or distress to the 
animals and for which appropriate anesthetic, 
analgesic, or tranquilizing drugs were used; 
‘‘(iii) the common species names and the 
numbers of each species upon which teaching, 
research, experiments, or tests were conducted 
involving accompanying pain or distress to the 
animals and for which the use of appropriate 
anesthetic, analgesic, or tranquilizing drugs 
would have adversely affected the procedures, 
results, or interpretation of the research; and 
‘‘(iv) the common species names and the 
numbers of each species being bred, condi-
tioned, or held for use in teaching, research, ex-
periments, or tests but not yet used for such 
purposes.’’; and 
(2) in the matter following paragraph (3), by 
adding at the end the following: ‘‘The Director of 
NIH shall make available to each animal care com-
mittee of a research entity a form for collecting the 
information described in subparagraph (D). Not 
later than 3 months after such a form is filed pursu-
ant to subparagraph (D), the Director of NIH shall 
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make the form available online in a publicly acces-
sible and searchable database.’’. 
(b) DELAYED
APPLICABILITY.—The amendments 
made by subsection (a) shall apply beginning on the date 
that is 2 years after the date of the enactment of this 
Act. 
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