[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8116 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8116

  To amend title 28, United States Code, to limit the use of Federal 
  funds for live tissue training for Department of Justice personnel.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 23, 2024

  Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania (for herself and Mr. Nehls) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 28, United States Code, to limit the use of Federal 
  funds for live tissue training for Department of Justice personnel.

    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    This Act may be cited as the ``Stop Wasteful and Outdated Medical 
Training on Animals Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS FOR LIVE TISSUE TRAINING.

    Section 530C(c) of title 28, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(3) Limitation on use of funds for live tissue 
        training.--
                    ``(A) In general.--No Federal funds available to 
                the Attorney General may be used to conduct, contract 
                for, or otherwise support, live tissue training for 
                Department of Justice personnel, unless the Attorney 
                General issues a written, nondelegable determination 
                that such training is medically necessary and cannot be 
                replicated by simulators and other human-based training 
                methods.
                    ``(B) Definitions.--In this paragraph--
                            ``(i) the term `Federal funds' includes 
                        direct and indirect Federal financial 
                        assistance;
                            ``(ii) the term `human-based training 
                        methods' means medical training methodologies 
                        that do not use animals, including human 
                        patient simulators, task trainers, and 
                        cadavers; and
                            ``(iii) the term `live tissue training' 
                        means training procedures that inflict wounds 
                        and injuries on live animals to teach personnel 
                        to treat human casualties.''.
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