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    <item congress="119" measure-type="hr" measure-number="233" measure-id="id119hr233" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2025-01-07" update-date="2025-02-25">
        <title>HELP PETS Act</title>
        <summary summary-id="id119hr233v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2025-02-25">
            <action-date>2025-01-07</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Higher Education Loses Payments for Painful Experiments, Tests and Studies Act or the HELP PETS Act</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits an institution of higher education (IHE) from receiving federal funds if the IHE conducts or funds painful research on dogs or cats. <em>Painful research</em> refers to any research, biomedical training, experimentation, or biological testing classified in specified pain categories by the Department of Agriculture.</p>]]></summary-text>
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