SAFE Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-901
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Introduced: 2023-03-21
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Latest action: action_date: 2023-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-03-21
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Safe American Food Exports Act of 2023 or the SAFE Act of 2023</b></p> <p>This bill allows the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to preemptively negotiate regional export ban agreements for known animal disease threats that apply only to areas affected by animal disease outbreaks. These agreements enable the continuation of exports from areas not affected by an outbreak. </p> <p>The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), and the Foreign Agricultural Service may negotiate the regionalization agreements with countries that have key export markets for any animal or article from the United States.</p> <p>In addition, USDA must promulgate a regulation requiring that, within three days of removing any language from the FSIS Import and Export Library, FSIS notify each state department of agriculture, each lead agency for animal disease, and any entity that petitioned for the inclusion of that language. (The FSIS library provides country and product specific information for (1) meat and poultry exports, and (2) products eligible for import to the United States.)</p>

tv_txt: II 118th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 901 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 21, 2023 Mr. Braun (for himself, Ms. Smith , Mr. Coons , and Mr. Wicker ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry A BILL To amend the Animal Health Protection Act to improve the prevention of the spread of animal diseases, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Safe American Food Exports Act of 2023 or the SAFE Act of 2023 . 2. Engagement with key export markets (a) In general Section 10405 of the Animal Health Protection Act ( 7 U.S.C. 8304 ) is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following: (d) Engagement with key export markets (1) In general The Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and the Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, in coordination with the Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service, may preemptively negotiate, to the extent practicable, regionalization agreements regarding outbreaks of known animal disease threats with the governments of countries with key export markets for any animal, article, or associated means of conveyance from the United States. (2) Research A negotiation carried out under paragraph (1) is encouraged to take into account accepted global research advances. . (b) Rule of construction Nothing in this section— (1) limits the ability of the Secretary of Agriculture to negotiate trade agreements; or (2) requires the Secretary of Agriculture to condition other trade agreements on the inclusion of language relating to regionalization as described in subsection (d)(1) of section 10405 of the Animal Health Protection Act ( 7 U.S.C. 3804 ). 3. Export library administration The Secretary of Agriculture shall promulgate a regulation to require that, in the case of any language removed from the Import and Export Library of the Food Safety and Inspection Service, the Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service shall directly notify each State department of agriculture, each lead State agency for animal disease, and any entity that petitioned for the inclusion of that language of such removal not later than 3 days after such removal.