[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3748 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3748

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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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 30, 2023

  Mr. Feenstra (for himself and Mr. Panetta) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in 
    addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


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

    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 ``Safe American Food Exports Act of 
2023'' or the ``SAFE Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. ENGAGEMENT WITH KEY EXPORT MARKETS.

    (a) In General.--Section 10405 of the Animal Health Protection Act 
(7 U.S.C. 8304) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following:
    ``(d) Engagement With Key Export Markets.--
            ``(1) In general.--To reduce the impact of animal disease 
        outbreaks on United States exports, the Secretary, acting 
        through the Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health 
        Inspection Service, the Under Secretary of Agriculture for 
        Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, and the Administrator 
        of the Food Safety and Inspection Service, in consultation with 
        the United States Trade Representative, is authorized to 
        negotiate regionalization, zoning, compartmentalization, and 
        other trade agreements regarding outbreaks of known animal 
        disease threats of trade significance with the governments of 
        countries with export markets for livestock animals or animal 
        products from the United States.
            ``(2) Research.--A negotiation carried out under paragraph 
        (1) should seek to take into account accepted global research 
        advances.''.
    (b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section may be 
construed--
            (1) to limit the ability of the United States Trade 
        Representative to negotiate trade agreements; or
            (2) to require the United States Trade Representative to 
        condition other trade agreements on the inclusion of language 
        relating to reducing the impact of animal disease outbreaks on 
        United States exports, as described in subsection (d)(1) of 
        section 10405 of the Animal Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 
        3804).

SEC. 3. NOTIFICATION SYSTEM.

    The Secretary of Agriculture shall promulgate a regulation to 
require that, in the case of any language removed from the Import and 
Export Library of the Food Safety and Inspection Service, the 
Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service shall directly 
notify each State department of agriculture, each lead State agency for 
animal disease, and any State and national producer organizations 
representing impacted livestock producers not later than 3 days after 
such removal.
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