SAVE Our Poultry Act

Supporting Avian Virus Eradication Act or the SAVE Our Poultry Act

This bill includes research on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) as a Department of Agriculture (USDA) high-priority research and extension area.

Under the bill, USDA may award grants to land-grant colleges and universities to study HPAI for the purposes of (1) developing and improving the efficacy of vaccines for poultry, and (2) enhancing biosecurity procedures for poultry producers.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2868 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2868

To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to 
 add highly pathogenic avian influenza as a high priority research and 
                            extension area.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2025

Ms. McBride (for herself and Mr. Lawler) introduced the following bill; 
           which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to 
 add highly pathogenic avian influenza as a high priority research and 
                            extension area.

    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 ``Supporting Avian Virus Eradication 
Act'' or the ``SAVE Our Poultry Act''.

SEC. 2. ADDITION OF HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA AS A HIGH 
              PRIORITY RESEARCH AND EXTENSION AREA.

    Section 1672(d) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade 
Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5925(d)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
            ``(21) Highly pathogenic avian influenza.--Research and 
        extension grants may be made under this section to land-grant 
        colleges and universities (as defined in section 1404 of 
        National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy 
        Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3103)) to study highly pathogenic avian 
        influenza for the purposes of--
                    ``(A) developing and improving the efficacy of 
                vaccines for poultry, including with respect to--
                            ``(i) researching the effectiveness of such 
                        vaccines across poultry species;
                            ``(ii) improving formulations of such 
                        vaccines;
                            ``(iii) improving the delivery mechanisms 
                        for such vaccines; and
                            ``(iv) assessing the potential implications 
                        of vaccination on domestic and international 
                        poultry markets, including trade and market 
                        access considerations; and
                    ``(B) enhancing biosecurity procedures for poultry 
                producers, including with respect to--
                            ``(i) evaluating training and biosecurity 
                        practices;
                            ``(ii) improving farm-level interventions; 
                        and
                            ``(iii) developing new disinfection 
                        methods.''.
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