Chronic Wasting Disease Support for States Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2057
Sponsor: Rep. McInnis, Scott [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural estimating and reporting
Agricultural extension work
Agricultural research
Agriculture and Food
Animal diseases
Brain diseases
Communicable diseases
Data banks
Deer
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Elk
Environmental Protection
Environmental research
Epidemiology
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to research
Genetic research
Genetics
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Health information systems
Health surveys
Indian lands
International Affairs
International cooperation
Law
Medical laboratories
Medical research
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Minorities
Nervous system diseases
Preventive medicine
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Science, Technology, Communications
Veterinary medicine
Wildlife
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Chronic Wasting Disease Support for States Act of 2003 - Defines "chronic wasting disease" as a transmissible disease of the nervous system afflicting deer and elk.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish and maintain the official national database for surveillance and monitoring data regarding chronic wasting disease. Makes the database available to Federal and State agencies, Indian tribes, foreign governments, institutions of higher education, and international wildlife authorities.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior (through the U.S. Geological Survey) and the Secretary of Agriculture (through the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) to develop surveillance and monitoring programs to identify: (1) the rate of infection; (2) the cause and extent of the spread of the disease; and (3) areas promoting spread of the disease.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to allocate funds to State and tribal agencies for developing and implementing disease management strategies based upon: (1) the relative scope of incidence of the disease; (2) expenditures on disease management; (3) comprehensive and integrated programs for disease management between wildlife and agricultural agencies; and (4) rapid response to outbreaks.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior (through the U.S. Geological Survey) to expand and accelerate research on the disease.
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture: (1) to provide for the upgrading of Federal laboratories approved to process samples from the surveillance and monitoring programs; and (2) expand and accelerate research on the disease through the Agricultural Research Service and Cooperative State Research grant programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
action_date: 2003-05-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-05-16
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House