To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to revise part 71 of title 42, Code of Federal Regulations, to allow for the import of certain dogs without rabies vaccination documentation or an import form, and for other purposes.
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Latest Action · August 13, 2024
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
This bill directs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to change federal regulations within 90 days to allow dogs to enter the United States without rabies vaccination documentation or import forms in certain cases. Specifically, dogs older than 6 months that have not spent the previous 180 days in countries identified as high-risk for dog-transmitted rabies, or puppies younger than 6 months that were born outside high-risk countries, could be imported if the person bringing them in simply provides written or verbal confirmation of these conditions. The bill affects anyone importing dogs into the United States, including individual pet owners and commercial importers. While the legislation does not include specific funding provisions, it streamlines the current import process by reducing documentation requirements for dogs from countries deemed lower-risk for rabies transmission.
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