I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1085 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the National Institutes 
of Health from awarding any support for an activity or program that 
uses live animals in research unless the research occurs in the United 
States, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 6, 2025 
Mr. NEHLS
(for himself, Ms. TITUS, Ms. NORTON, Mrs. KIM, Mr. 
FITZPATRICK, Mr. DAVIS of North Carolina, Ms. MALLIOTAKIS, Mr. 
GOODEN, and Mr. MACKENZIE) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the 
National Institutes of Health from awarding any support 
for an activity or program that uses live animals in 
research unless the research occurs in the United States, 
and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Cease Animal Research 
Grants Overseas Act of 2025’’ or the ‘‘CARGO Act of 
2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) From fiscal year 2011 through fiscal year 
2021, the National Institutes of Health provided ap-
proximately $2.2 billion to foreign organizations for 
research projects involving animals. 
(2) The National Institutes of Health does not 
conduct inspections of foreign organizations, and 
these organizations self-report information per-
taining to animal welfare, creating a risk that infor-
mation will be misrepresented. 
(3) This lack of oversight has resulted in the 
mistreatment of animals used in research projects 
performed outside the United States and funded by 
the American public. 
SEC. 3. NO NIH SUPPORT FOR USE OF LIVE ANIMALS IN RE-
SEARCH 
BY 
PERSONS 
OUTSIDE 
OF 
THE 
UNITED STATES. 
Section 495 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 289d) is amended— 
(1) in subsections (a)(3) and (c)(1)(A), by 
striking ‘‘subsection (b)’’ each place it appears and 
inserting ‘‘subsection (c)’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)(1) by striking ‘‘subsection 
(a)(3)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (b)(3)’’; 
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(3) in subsections (b)(1), (b)(3)(A), (b)(3)(C), 
(c)(1)(A), and (d)(1), by striking ‘‘subsection (a)’’ 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘subsection (b)’’; 
(4) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘subsections 
(a) or (c)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (b) or (d)’’; 
(5) by redesignating subsections (a) through (e) 
(as amended by this section) as subsections (b) 
through (f), respectively; and 
(6) by inserting before subsection (b) (as so re-
designated) the following: 
‘‘(a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
Act, the National Institutes of Health may not award any 
support (including any grant, contract, cooperative agree-
ment, or technical assistance) for any activity or program 
that uses live animals for research unless the research oc-
curs in the United States. 
‘‘(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), the term ‘United 
States’ includes, in addition to the several States, the Dis-
trict of Columbia and any territory or possession of the 
United States.’’. 
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