[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 195 (Wednesday, December 19, 2007)]
[House]
[Pages H16922-H16923]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CHIMP HAVEN IS HOME ACT

  Mrs. McCARTHY of New York. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
that the Committee on Energy and Commerce be discharged from further 
consideration of the Senate bill (S. 1916) to amend the Public Health 
Service Act to modify the program for the sanctuary system for surplus 
chimpanzees by terminating the authority for the removal of chimpanzees 
from the system for research purposes, and ask for its immediate 
consideration in the House.
  The Clerk read the title of the Senate bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentlewoman from New York?
  There was no objection.
  The Clerk read the Senate bill, as follows:

                                S. 1916

       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 ``Chimp Haven is Home Act''.

     SEC. 2. SANCTUARY SYSTEM FOR SURPLUS CHIMPANZEES; TERMINATION 
                   OF AUTHORITY FOR REMOVAL FROM SYSTEM FOR 
                   RESEARCH PURPOSES.

       (a) In General.--The first section 481C of the Public 
     Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 287a-3a) (added by section 2 of 
     Public Law 106-551) is amended in subsection (d)--
       (1) in paragraph (2), in subparagraph (J), by striking ``If 
     any chimpanzee is removed'' and all that follows; and
       (2) in paragraph (3)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A)--
       (i) by striking clause (ii); and

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       (ii) by striking ``except as provided'' in the matter 
     preceding clause (i) and all that follows through 
     ``behavioral studies'' and inserting the following: ``except 
     that the chimpanzee may be used for noninvasive behavioral 
     studies'';
       (B) by striking subparagraph (B);
       (C) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (B); 
     and
       (D) in subparagraph (B) (as so redesignated), by striking 
     ``under subparagraphs (A) and (B)'' and inserting ``under 
     subparagraph (A)''.
       (b) Technical Correction.--Part E of title IV of the Public 
     Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 287 et seq.) is amended by 
     redesignating the second section 481C (added by section 
     204(a) of Public Law 106-505) as section 481D.

  The Senate bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the 
third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the 
table.

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