Sec. 4. Reporting

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Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Director of the NIH shall publish on the NIH website, and submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, a report on the use of dogs and cats in NIH-conducted and funded biomedical research. Each report under paragraph

(1)shall include, for the period covered by the report— a list of all ongoing or prospective research projects that cause significant pain or distress to a dog or cat and are conducted or funded by the NIH; for each project— the project title; the grant or contract number; the research abstract; the research location; the cost to taxpayers during the previous fiscal year and since inception; the number of dogs or cats used; the projected start and end dates; the Department of Agriculture pain and distress category; and the amount of funds obligated or estimated to be obligated for each such project; an explanation of— efforts to phase out the use of dogs and cats in research that is conducted or funded by the NIH; and any barriers to such phase out; and the number of dogs and cats retired and adopted from research conducted or funded by the NIH. Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit a report to the Congress that— reviews and summarizes the use of dogs and cats in research that is conducted or funded by the NIH; identifies NIH policies and initiatives aimed at reducing and replacing the specific use of dogs and cats in research that causes significant pain or distress and is conducted or funded by the NIH; assesses the effectiveness of any NIH policies and initiatives aimed at reducing and replacing the use of dogs and cats in NIH-conducted and funded research; compares NIH efforts to reduce and replace dog and cat testing to similar efforts at other Federal agencies; identifies areas where the NIH can improve— efforts to reduce and replace the use of dogs and cats in research that is conducted or funded by the NIH; and public reporting on progress made; assesses the effectiveness of any NIH policies and initiatives aimed at retiring and re-homing dogs and cats no longer needed in research conducted or funded by the NIH; makes recommendations for improving— the effectiveness of efforts to reduce and replace the use of dogs and cats in research conducted or funded by the NIH; and public reporting on progress made; and includes any other matter the Comptroller General of the United States determines important to assessing and improving NIH’s efforts to reduce and replace the use of dogs and cats in federally funded research that causes significant pain or distress. In this section: The term NIH means the National Institutes of Health. The term research that causes significant pain or distress includes any study classified in pain category D or E by the Department of Agriculture.