Title: To require agencies of the Federal Government to define the term service animal in accordance with the regulations of the Department of Justice, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
This bill requires each federal agency to define service animal and assistance animal consistent with the definitions of such terms in a federal regulation titled Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations and in Commercial Facilities.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9063 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9063

   To require agencies of the Federal Government to define the term 
service animal in accordance with the regulations of the Department of 
                    Justice, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 31, 2020

 Mr. King of Iowa introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                 the Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require agencies of the Federal Government to define the term 
service animal in accordance with the regulations of the Department of 
                    Justice, 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. DEFINITION OF SERVICE ANIMAL.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 360 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, each agency of the Federal Government shall--
            (1) by rule, adopt a definition for the terms ``service 
        animal'' and ``assistance animal'', for purposes of the 
        regulations of that agency, that is identical to the term 
        ``service animal'', as defined in the final rule entitled 
        ``Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public 
        Accommodations and in Commercial Facilities'' (75 Fed. Reg. 
        56236 (September 15, 2010)); and
            (2) conform any reference to ``service animal'' and 
        ``assistance animal'' in the regulations, policies, or other 
        official documents of that agency to the term ``service 
        animal'', as defined in the final rule entitled 
        ``Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public 
        Accommodations and in Commercial Facilities'' (75 Fed. Reg. 
        56236 (September 15, 2010)).
    (b) Applicability.--Not later than two years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, with respect to an individual with a ``service 
animal'' or ``assistance animal'' on the date of the enactment of this 
Act that does not meet the definition of the term ``service animal'' as 
defined in the final rule entitled ``Nondiscrimination on the Basis of 
Disability by Public Accommodations and in Commercial Facilities'' (75 
Fed. Reg. 56236 (September 15, 2010)), each agency of the Federal 
Government shall apply subsection (a) in a way that limits the negative 
impact to such individual.
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