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Main Subject: Agriculture and Food

National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility Act of 2019

This bill provides statutory authority for the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to act through the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility to provide integrated research and development to defend U.S. agriculture and food against bio- and agro-terrorism threats.

Specifically, the bill requires USDA to use the facility to implement research and development objectives to (1) develop veterinary countermeasures for emerging foreign animal diseases and animal transboundary diseases; and (2) provide advanced test, diagnostic, and evaluation capability for threat detection, vulnerability assessment, and veterinary countermeasure assessment for animal and zoonotic diseases.

Senate Actions

Calendars
Dec. 17 2019	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 376.

Committee
Dec. 17 2019	Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Reported by Senator Roberts with amendments. Without written report. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.

IntroReferral
Oct. 24 2019	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Library of Congress Actions

Committee
Dec. 17 2019	Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Reported by Senator Roberts with amendments. Without written report.

IntroReferral
Oct. 24 2019	Introduced in Senate

Senate bill S2695-116

National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility Act of 2019

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