S.Amdt. 3309

SA 3309. Mr. TOOMEY (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3224 proposed by Mr.
Roberts (for himself and Ms. Stabenow) to the bill H.R. 2, to provide
for the reform and continuation of agricultural and other programs of
the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 2023, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle E of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 125__. FEDERAL RESEARCH INVOLVING CATS AND DOGS.

Section 14 of the Animal Welfare Act (7 U.S.C. 2144) is
amended--
(1) by striking ``sections 13(a), (f), (g), and (h)'' each
place it appears and inserting ``subsections (a), (f), (g),
and (h) of section 13'';
(2) in the second sentence, by striking ``Any department''
and inserting the following:
``(b) Exhibitions.--Any department'';
(3) by striking the section designation and heading and all
that follows through ``Any department'' in the first sentence
and inserting the following:

``SEC. 14. STANDARDS FOR FEDERAL FACILITIES.

``(a) Laboratories.--Any department''; and
(4) by adding at the end the following:
``(c) Research Involving Cats and Dogs.--The Secretary
shall conduct a study of the practicability of providing for
the adoption, as the Secretary determines to be appropriate,
of any cats and dogs that--
``(1) are, or have been, located at any research facility
of the Department of Agriculture at which research, testing,
or experimentation on cats or dogs is conducted; and
``(2) are no longer needed for that research, testing, or
experimentation.''.
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