[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 388 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 388

To amend the Animal Welfare Act to require humane treatment of animals 
                   by Federal Government facilities.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 5, 2015

 Mr. Booker (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Schatz, and Mr. Durbin) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
           Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Animal Welfare Act to require humane treatment of animals 
                   by Federal Government facilities.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Animal Welfare in Agricultural 
Research Endeavors Act'' or the ``AWARE Act''.

SEC. 2. ANIMAL WELFARE.

    Section 14 of the Animal Welfare Act (7 U.S.C. 2144) is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``Any'' and 
        inserting the following:
            ``(1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (3), any Federal 
        research facility or any other'';
            (2) in the second sentence, by striking ``Any'' and 
        inserting the following:
            ``(2) Animal exhibition.--Any''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Exclusions not applicable.--For purposes of the 
        application of standards and other requirements described in 
        paragraph (1) to a Federal research facility or any other 
        department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States 
        having laboratory animal facilities, the exclusions contained 
        in section 2(g)(3) shall not apply.''.
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