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Topic: Agriculture — Animal and Crop Disease
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Date: 2013-06-17 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Amends the Controlled Substances Act to prohibit a veterinarian who is registered to manufacture or distribute controlled substances from being required to have a separate registration in order to transport and dispense controlled substances in the usual course of veterinary practice at a site other than such veterinarian's principal place of business or professional practice, as long as the site of transporting and dispensing is located in a state where the veterinarian is licensed to practice.
Topic: Agriculture — Animal and Crop Disease
Subject: Environmental protection
Date: 2013-07-23 00:00:00

Farmer Identity Protection Act - Prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), or any EPA contractor or cooperator, from disclosing the information of any owner, operator, or employee of a livestock operation provided to EPA by a livestock producer or a state agency in accordance with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) or any other law, including: (1) names; (2) telephone numbers; (3) e-mail addresses; (4) physical addresses; (5) global positioning system coordinates; or (6) other information regarding the location of the owner, operator, livestock, or employee.

Prescribes criteria for such a disclosure, however, in a statistical or aggregate form without specifically identifying information.
Topic: Agriculture — Animal and Crop Disease
Subject: Animals
Date: 2013-07-31 00:00:00

Prevent All Soring Tactics Act of 2014 or the PAST Act - (Sec. 2) Amends the Horse Protection Act (HPA) to replace the Designated Qualified Persons program responsible for inspecting horses for soring with a new inspection system. (The soring of horses is any of various actions taken on a horse's limb to produce a higher gait that may cause pain, distress, inflammation, or lameness.) Directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to prescribe regulatory requirements to license, train, assign, and oversee persons who are to be hired by the management of horse shows, exhibitions, sales, or auctions and are qualified to detect and diagnose sore horses or otherwise inspect horses at such events.

Prohibits issuing a license to any person unless such person is free from conflicts of interest. Authorizes USDA to revoke a license for unsatisfactory performance. Requires USDA to give a preference to persons who are licensed or accredited veterinarians in issuing the licenses.

Requires USDA to assign USDA-licensed inspectors after receiving notice that management intends to hire the inspectors.

Directs an inspector to issue a citation for violations and notify USDA of the violations within five days of the citation being issued.

Requires USDA to: (1) publish on the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's website information on violations of such Act; and (2) disqualify a horse that is sore for specified time periods that increase after the first, second, and third instance.

Prohibits a person in any horse show, horse exhibition, or horse sale or auction from causing or directing a horse to become sore for the purpose of showing, exhibiting, selling, auctioning, or offering for sale the horse.

 Prohibits showing, exhibiting, selling, or auctioning a Tennessee Walking, a Racking, or a Spotted Saddle horse with: (1) an action device that causes friction by rotating around a horse's leg or sliding up and down the leg or strikes the hoof, coronet band, fetlock joint, or pastern of the horse; or (2) a weighted shoe, pad, wedge, hoof band, or other device or material if it is constructed to artificially alter a horse's gait and is not strictly protective or therapeutic.

Increases the maximum criminal penalties and maximum civil liability penalties for certain HPA violations.

Authorizes USDA to disqualify a violator from: (1) transporting or arranging for the transportation of a horse to or from a show, exhibition, sale, or auction; (2) personally giving instructions to an exhibitor; or (3) being knowingly present in a warm-up area, inspection area, or other area that spectators are not permitted.

 Permits USDA to permanently disqualify a person with at least three violations after notice and an opportunity for a hearing.
Topic: Agriculture — Animal and Crop Disease
Subject: Animals
Date: 2014-04-01 00:00:00

Horse Protection Amendments Act of 2014 - Amends the Horse Protection Act to replace the Designated Qualified Persons program responsible for inspecting horses for soring with a new inspection system. (The soring of horses is any of various actions taken on a horse's limb to produce a higher gait that may cause pain, distress, inflammation, or lameness.)

Requires a sore horse to be disqualified from being shown or exhibited for at least 30 days for the first determination that the horse is sore and 90 days for a second determination and any subsequent determination.

Requires the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a single Horse Industry Organization (HIO) in order to establish a formal affiliation with the management of each horse sale, horse exhibition, and horse sale or auction, appoint inspectors to conduct inspections, contract with equine veterinary experts to advise the HIO Board on objective scientific testing methods and certification of testing results, and otherwise ensure compliance with the Horse Protection Act.

Directs the appointment of individuals by the Commissioners of Agriculture for Tennessee and Kentucky to govern the HIO. Requires those individuals to appoint individuals representing the Tennessee Walking Horse industry.
Topic: Agriculture — Animal and Crop Disease
Subject: Commerce
Date: 2014-07-31 00:00:00

Fairness to Pet Owners Act of 2014 - Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to require prescribers of animal drugs to verify prescriptions and provide copies of prescriptions to pet owners, pet owner designees, and pharmacies, without the prescriber demanding payment or establishing other conditions.

Treats a violation of this Act as an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act.
Topic: Agriculture — Animal and Crop Disease
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2015-02-25 00:00:00

Fair and Transparent Stakeholder Involvement Fee Act 

This bill prohibits the Department of Agriculture (USDA) from issuing or enforcing a final rule based on the proposed rule entitled "User Fees for Agricultural Quarantine and Inspection Services." The proposed rule adds new fee categories and adjusts current fees charged for certain agricultural quarantine and inspection services that are provided in connection with vessels, trucks, railroad cars, aircraft, and international passengers arriving at ports in the customs territory of the United States.

The bill also prohibits USDA from issuing a final rule for quarantine and inspection fees authorized by the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade (FACT) Act of 1990, except in compliance with negotiated rulemaking procedures.
Topic: Agriculture — Animal and Crop Disease
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2015-04-22 00:00:00

Safeguard American Food Exports Act of 2015

Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem equine (horses and other members of the equidae family) parts to be an unsafe food additive or animal drug.

 Prohibits the knowing sale or transport of equines or equine parts in interstate or foreign commerce for purposes of human consumption.
Topic: Agriculture — Animal and Crop Disease
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2015-06-25 00:00:00

This bill prohibits the Department of Agriculture from using funds for grants or cooperative agreements for research on the prevention of rose rosette disease. The bill also rescinds any unobligated balances from appropriations provided for this purpose. Rose rosette disease is caused by a plant virus that is transmitted by mites and can kill infected roses.
Topic: Agriculture — Animal and Crop Disease
Subject: Environmental protection
Date: 2015-10-08 00:00:00

Safe Agriculture Production Act of 2015

This bill amends the Plant Protection Act to allow state, local, or tribal governments to use methyl bromide as a fumigant if: (1) the use is required to respond to an emergency concerning a significant economic loss of crops to pests or diseases, and (2) the Department of Agriculture (USDA) does not object to that use within a specified time period.

The bill allows this use of methyl bromide during an emergency event regardless of whether the use is registered and included in the label approved for the product by the Environmental Protection Agency under Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.

The bill limits the amount of methyl bromide that may be used per emergency event at a specific location to not more than 20 metric tons. The aggregate amount of methyl bromide used in the United States each year may not exceed the total amount authorized under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

The bill gives USDA exclusive authority for determining which species are considered quarantine pests.
Topic: Agriculture — Animal and Crop Disease
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2015-11-03 00:00:00

Areawide Integrated Pest Management Act of 2015 or the AIPM Act of 2015 

This bill amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to expand the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program to include grants to colleges, universities, and other entities for qualified areawide integrated pest management projects to prevent the spread of pests and invasive species.

The bill establishes an areawide integrated pest management committee to consider stakeholder feedback and determine priorities for the projects.

The projects must be implemented on a landscape scale or larger and include collaboration with specified federal, regional, state, and nongovernmental entities. The projects may prevent the spread of pests and invasive species through: prevention, avoidance, monitoring, and suppression; educational programs; and physical, mechanical, cultural biologically-based, or chemical controls.

A qualified project must:

 provide for significant benefits for the prevention, eradication, or management of pests and invasive species; provide for economic and environmental benefits to agriculture, individuals, wildlife, and the environment; address the annual priorities established by the integrated pest management committee; last no more than five years; establish a regional advisory committee to oversee the project; and involve the cooperative extension services in translating the results of research into practical information and tools to be shared. USDA must transfer to the National Institute of Food and Agriculture the authority for the Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program.
Topic: Agriculture — Animal and Crop Disease
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2015-12-10 00:00:00

This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to reimburse producers on farms for losses that are due to the inability to plant, grow, or ship a crop to market due to a federal or state government quarantine to control the Oriental fruit fly.

The payments are limited to 70% of the market value of the affected crop and end as soon as possible once the producer is able to resume marketing a crop after the quarantine is lifted.

In implementing this bill, USDA must not discriminate against or penalize a producer that obtained, or did not obtain, crop insurance, noninsured crop disaster assistance, or similar risk protection for the same type of crop, except that assistance provided by this bill must be reduced by the amount of assistance provided for the same losses under any other federal law.

Producers receiving assistance under this bill must agree to obtain crop insurance, noninsured crop disaster assistance, or similar risk protection for the same type of crop for at least the next two crop years, if the insurance, assistance, or protection is available.
Topic: Agriculture — Animal and Crop Disease
Subject: Health
Date: 2016-04-29 00:00:00

VFD Repeal Act of 2016

This bill repeals the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) final rule regarding the Veterinary Feed Directive published on June 3, 2015, and prohibits the FDA from issuing any similar rule. (Veterinary Feed Directive regulations prohibit the use of medically important antibiotics for animal production purposes. Under these regulations, an animal producer may only use such antibiotics with the authorization of a veterinarian for the prevention, control, or treatment of a specifically identified disease. The rule repealed by this bill revised those regulations, including to require a valid veterinarian-client-patient relationship for a veterinarian to authorize the use of antibiotics.)
Topic: Agriculture — Animal and Crop Disease
Subject: Health
Date: 2015-03-02 00:00:00

Preventing Antibiotic Resistance Act of 2015

This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to refuse a new animal drug application if the drug is a medically important antimicrobial (used to treat humans) and the applicant fails to demonstrate that the drug meets specified criteria for use in animals, including that: (1) the drug is effective, (2) the drug is targeted to animals at risk of developing a specific bacterial disease, (3) the drug has a defined duration of therapy, and (4) there is reasonable certainty of no harm to human health from microbial resistance to the drug.

Sponsors of certain medically important antimicrobials already approved for use in food-producing animals must submit evidence to the FDA that demonstrates that their drug meets the criteria described above for approved indications. The FDA must withdraw approval for any indication for which the FDA determines there is insufficient evidence that the drug meets the criteria.

This bill expresses the sense of the Senate that a veterinarian-client-patient relationship should ensure that medically important antimicrobials are used in food-producing animals in a manner consistent with best practices.
Topic: Defense — Reserve Forces
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2007-01-17 00:00:00

National Heroes Credit Protection Act - Amends the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 to authorize a member of the reserves who is deployed outside the United States for 180 days or more in support of a contingency operation (servicemember) to request that a consumer reporting agency (CRA) include in that servicemember's file a military service deployment explanation (explanation) with respect to an account that was opened by the servicemember before such deployment. Requires: (1) a reseller of credit reporting information to include in any report on a servicemember any explanation placed in such servicemember's file by another CRA; and (2) any user of a consumer credit report containing such explanation to acknowledge the explanation.
Topic: Defense — Reserve Forces
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2007-01-30 00:00:00

National Guard Empowerment Act of 2007 - Expands the: (1) authority of the Chief of the National Guard Bureau (Bureau) to include membership on the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) (and raises the grade of the Chief from lieutenant general to general); and (2) functions of the Bureau to include facilitating and coordinating, with other federal agencies and the states, the use of Guard personnel and resources for, and in, contingency operations, military operations other than war, natural disasters, and support of civil authorities. Directs the Chief to: (1) identify gaps between federal and state capabilities to prepare for and respond to emergencies; and (2) make recommendations to the Secretary of Defense on Guard programs and activities to address such gaps. Requires annual Department of Defense (DOD) budget justification documents to include separate amounts for Guard training and equipment for military assistance to civil authorities and other domestic operations. Expresses the sense of Congress calling for consideration of eligible reserve officers for promotion to the grades of lieutenant general or vice admiral on the active duty list. Treats service as a Bureau adjutant general as joint duty experience. Requires the position of Deputy Commander of the U.S. Northern Command to be filled by a qualified Guard officer eligible for promotion to the grade of lieutenant general. Requires an annual plan for the use of the Armed Forces and National Guard for responding to disasters and acts of terrorism.
Topic: Defense — Reserve Forces
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2007-01-30 00:00:00

Forgotten Veteran's Retirement Compensation Act - Limits the conditions under which military retired pay based on nonregular service involving members of reserve components completing their service before 1966 may be revoked. Provides for back payment of retired pay to such veterans or, if deceased, to their surviving spouses and dependent children.
Topic: Defense — Reserve Forces
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2007-02-05 00:00:00

Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to the Minnesota Air National Guard Historical Foundation, Inc., all interest of the United States in and to the A-12 Blackbird aircraft with tail number 60-6931 that is under the jurisdiction of the National Museum of the United States Air Force, and as of January 1, 2007, was on loan to the Foundation and on display with the 133rd Airlift Wing at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Minnesota.
Topic: Defense — Reserve Forces
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2007-02-06 00:00:00

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a business tax credit for up to 50 percent of the actual compensation paid to employees who were members of the Ready Reserve or National Guard and who were absent from work to perform active duty. Limits such credit to $2,000 for any one Ready Reserve-National Guard employee.
Topic: Defense — Reserve Forces
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2007-02-06 00:00:00

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide employers a business tax credit for up to ten percent of compensation not paid to their employees who were members of the Ready Reserve or National Guard absent from work to perform active duty. Limits such credit to $2,000 for any one Ready Reserve-National Guard employee per year.
Topic: Defense — Reserve Forces
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2007-02-13 00:00:00

Excludes funds provided for the National Guard Youth Challenge Program by federal agencies other than the Department of Defense from the matching-funds requirement. Authorizes appropriations for FY2008 to the Secretary of Defense to carry out the Program.
Topic: Defense — Reserve Forces
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2007-02-27 00:00:00

Ready Employers Willing to Assist Reservists' Deployment Act of 2007 or the REWARD Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a tax credit for 50% of the wages paid to their employees on active military duty for more than 90 days as Ready Reserve or National Guard and for 50% of the wages paid to temporary replacement employees.
Topic: Defense — Reserve Forces
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2007-03-09 00:00:00

National Guard and Reserve Retirement Modernization Act - Amends federal law concerning receipt of retired pay for non-regular service to provide that, in the case of a member of the Ready Reserve who serves on active duty after September 11, 2001, in support of a contingency operation or in response to a national emergency, retirement eligibility age shall be reduced below 60 by three months for each aggregate of 90 days during which the member so performs in any fiscal year after such date. Prohibits such retirement eligibility date from being reduced below age 50. Continues age 60 as the minimum eligibility age for DOD-authorized health care for such retirees.
Topic: Defense — Reserve Forces
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2007-03-13 00:00:00

Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to allow a military reservist who is ordered to active duty for a period of more than 90 days: (1) an exemption during the period of active duty from payment of rent on a primary residence occupied by such member or dependents; and (2) a deferral of mortgage payments on a principal residence. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow lessors of military reservists granted an exemption from rent payments under this Act a refundable tax credit for the exempted lease amounts.
Topic: Defense — Reserve Forces
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2007-03-15 00:00:00

Coming Together for Guard and Reserve Families Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to enhance and improve Department of Defense (DOD) programs to provide family support for families of members of the National Guard and Reserve undergoing deployment (members). Requires such support to include post-deployment assistance for spouses and parents of returning members. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a pilot program of family-to-family support for families of such members; and (2) contract for support services for children, infants, and toddlers of such members. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to jointly expand and enhance access to mental health services for families of members who are disabled during military service. Requires a report from the Comptroller General to Congress on barriers to access to mental health services through TRICARE (a DOD managed health care program), including the number of providers under TRICARE that are located more than 40 miles from a military installation.
Topic: Defense — Reserve Forces
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2007-03-22 00:00:00

Montgomery GI Bill Integration Act of 2007 - Recodifies under federal veterans' benefits provisions former federal armed forces provisions relating to educational assistance programs for members of the reserve components. Increases monthly educational assistance benefit amounts. Includes under such recodification provisions concerning Selected Reserve educational assistance allowances for: (1) apprenticeships and on-the-job training; (2) correspondence courses; (3) flight training; (4) tutorial assistance; (5) courses beyond the baccalaureate degree level; (6) persons with skills or specialties for which there is a critical shortage; and (7) licensing and certification tests. Extends the time limitation for the use of such entitlement to the earlier of 14 years after the person first becomes entitled to such assistance or the date upon which the person is separated from the Selected Reserve (currently, ten years after the person first becomes entitled to such assistance). Extends the time limitation for the use of the Ready Reserve educational assistance entitlement to ten years after separation from the Ready Reserve.
Topic: Defense — Reserve Forces
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2007-04-20 00:00:00

Permits the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay up to $300 for travel expenses to a member of the Selected Reserve performing inactive duty training or attending a unit training assembly outside the commuting limits of the member's station for the purpose of maintaining mission readiness.