[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 108 (Wednesday, June 27, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S4670]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3309. Mr. TOOMEY (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3224 proposed by Mr. 
Roberts (for himself and Ms. Stabenow) to the bill H.R. 2, to provide 
for the reform and continuation of agricultural and other programs of 
the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 2023, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle E of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 125__. FEDERAL RESEARCH INVOLVING CATS AND DOGS.

       Section 14 of the Animal Welfare Act (7 U.S.C. 2144) is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking ``sections 13(a), (f), (g), and (h)'' each 
     place it appears and inserting ``subsections (a), (f), (g), 
     and (h) of section 13'';
       (2) in the second sentence, by striking ``Any department'' 
     and inserting the following:
       ``(b) Exhibitions.--Any department'';
       (3) by striking the section designation and heading and all 
     that follows through ``Any department'' in the first sentence 
     and inserting the following:

     ``SEC. 14. STANDARDS FOR FEDERAL FACILITIES.

       ``(a) Laboratories.--Any department''; and
       (4) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(c) Research Involving Cats and Dogs.--The Secretary 
     shall conduct a study of the practicability of providing for 
     the adoption, as the Secretary determines to be appropriate, 
     of any cats and dogs that--
       ``(1) are, or have been, located at any research facility 
     of the Department of Agriculture at which research, testing, 
     or experimentation on cats or dogs is conducted; and
       ``(2) are no longer needed for that research, testing, or 
     experimentation.''.
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