The Captive Primate Safety Act amends federal wildlife law to prohibit the import, export, breeding, and possession of live primates, including chimpanzees, gorillas, monkeys, lemurs, and other nonhuman primate species. The bill affects private individuals and entities that currently own or breed primates, though it provides limited exceptions for research facilities registered with the Department of Agriculture and allows people who already owned primates before the law's enactment to keep them if they register the animals within 180 days and refrain from breeding or selling them. The Secretary of the Interior must issue regulations implementing the law within 180 days, though the law will be enforceable even if those regulations are delayed. The bill does not specify any new federal funding for implementation and instead relies on existing enforcement mechanisms under the Lacey Act.
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