Sec. 2. Improving the accuracy and transparency of animal use data collected by the national institutes of health
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Section 495(b) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 289d(b) ) is amended— in paragraph (3)— in subparagraph (B), by striking and at the end; in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by inserting after subparagraph
(C)the following: 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— 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); 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; 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 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 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. . 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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Improving the accuracy and transparency of animal use data collected by the national institutes of health
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