[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 708 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 708

   To amend the Animal Welfare Act to limit experimentation on cats.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 7, 2019

Mr. Merkley (for himself and Mr. Booker) 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 limit experimentation on cats.

    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 ``Kittens In Traumatic Testing Ends 
Now Act of 2019'' or the ``KITTEN Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON EXPERIMENTATION ON CATS.

    Section 14 of the Animal Welfare Act (7 U.S.C. 2144) is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``Any department'' 
        and inserting the following:
    ``(a) In General.--Any department'';
            (2) in subsection (a) (as so designated), in the second 
        sentence, by striking ``Any department'' and inserting the 
        following:
    ``(b) Exhibiting Animals.--Any department''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Department of Agriculture Experimentation on Cats.--Not later 
than 90 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, the 
Secretary shall not purchase, breed, transport, house, feed, maintain, 
dispose of, or conduct an experiment on a cat as part of any study or 
research that would subject that cat to a procedure that may cause pain 
or stress, including pain or stress that may be mitigated by 
anesthetics, analgesics, or tranquilizer drugs, unless the pain or 
stress is a result of a physical exam or training program.''.
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