Federal Animal Research Accountability Act of 2025
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1Short title
This section says the Act may be called the Federal Animal Research Accountability Act of 2025.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Federal Animal Research Accountability Act of 2025 .
2Improving the accuracy and transparency of animal use data collected by the national institutes of health
This section would amend the Public Health Service Act's animal welfare assurance requirements for entities that use funds under that Act to conduct biomedical or behavioral research. It would require each such research entity to file a form with the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) every year reporting the total number of animals the entity bred, housed, and used in the preceding fiscal year. Within that total, the form would have to break the numbers down by common species name into four categories: animals used in teaching, research, experiments, or tests that involved no pain or distress and no use of pain-relieving drugs (including research using only routine procedures such as injections, tattooing, and blood sampling); animals used in teaching, research, experiments, or tests that involved pain or distress to the animals and for which appropriate anesthetic, analgesic, or tranquilizing drugs were used; animals used in teaching, research, experiments, or tests that involved pain or distress to the animals and for which such drugs were not used because using them would have adversely affected the procedures, results, or interpretation of the research; and animals being bred, conditioned, or held for use in teaching, research, experiments, or tests but not yet used for those purposes. The NIH Director would have to make a form available to each research entity's animal care committee for collecting this information. Within 3 months after a research entity files its form, the Director would have to make that form available online in a database that is publicly accessible and searchable. These changes would take effect starting on the date that is 2 years after the date this Act becomes law.
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2. Improving the accuracy and transparency of animal use data collected by the national institutes of health (a) In general Section 495(b) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 289d(b) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (3)— (A) in subparagraph (B), by striking and at the end; (B) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following: (D) file with the Director of NIH annually a form indicating the total number of animals bred, housed, and used by the research entity in the preceding fiscal year, that includes, with respect to such total number— (i) the common species names and the numbers of each species upon which teaching, research, experiments, or tests were conducted involving no pain, distress, or use of pain-relieving drugs (including research involving only routine procedures such as injections, tattooing, and blood sampling); (ii) the common species names and the numbers of each species upon which teaching, research, experiments, or tests were conducted involving accompanying pain or distress to the animals and for which appropriate anesthetic, analgesic, or tranquilizing drugs were used; (iii) the common species names and the numbers of each species upon which teaching, research, experiments, or tests were conducted involving accompanying pain or distress to the animals and for which the use of appropriate anesthetic, analgesic, or tranquilizing drugs would have adversely affected the procedures, results, or interpretation of the research; and (iv) the common species names and the numbers of each species being bred, conditioned, or held for use in teaching, research, experiments, or tests but not yet used for such purposes. ; and (2) in the matter following paragraph (3), by adding at the end the following: The Director of NIH shall make available to each animal care committee of a research entity a form for collecting the information described in subparagraph (D). Not later than 3 months after such a form is filed pursuant to subparagraph (D), the Director of NIH shall make the form available online in a publicly accessible and searchable database. . (b) Delayed applicability The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply beginning on the date that is 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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