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S 1501 119th Congress

SAFE Act of 2025

A bill to amend the Animal Health Protection Act to improve the prevention of the spread of animal diseases, and for other purposes.

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Introduced Apr 28, 2025 Latest action Apr 28, 2025 Sponsor: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS] Agriculture and Food
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  1. Official action Congress.gov

    Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

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IntroductionIntroduced Introduced in the Senate. Congress.gov
Official actionRead twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. No additional detail supplied.IntroReferral · Senate Congress.gov
Official actionIntroduced in Senate No additional detail supplied.IntroReferral · Library of Congress · Code 10000 Congress.gov
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Introduced in Senate Apr 28, 2025

Safe American Food Exports Act of 2025 or the SAFE Act of 2025This bill provides statutory authority for the Department of Agriculture to preemptively negotiate regional export ban agreements for known animal disease threats that apply only to areas affected by animal disease outbreaks to enable the continuation of exports from areas not affected by an outbreak.The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the Food Safety and Inspection Service, and the Foreign Agricultural Service, in consultation with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, may negotiate the regionalization, zoning, compartmentalization, and other agreements regarding outbreaks of known animal disease threats of trade significance with countries with export markets for livestock animals or animal products from the United States.The bill also specifies that such a negotiation should take into account accepted global research advances.

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