Wildlife Global Animal Information Network for Surveillance Act

To establish a wildlife global animal information network for surveillance internationally to combat the growing threat of emerging diseases that involve wild animals, such as bird flu, and for other purposes.

3/8/2007--Introduced.
Wildlife Global Animal Information Network for Surveillance Act or Wildlife GAINS Act - Requires the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to offer to enter into a contract with a nongovernmental wildlife conservation organization to establish a Wildlife Global Animal Information Network for Surveillance. Requires the eligible organization, in coordination with USAID, to manage an international surveillance program under which federal and non-federal partners:
(1) monitor and test for the presence or arrival of avian pathogens and other significant pathogens in free-ranging wildlife;
(2) use trained professionals to collect samples and data;
(3) conduct disease surveillance, field investigations, training and capacity-building activities, and research;
(4) send samples for pathogen identification and testing to certified laboratories; and
(5) transmit information related to global distribution and characteristics of significant pathogens to the Administrator.
Requires the Administrator, acting through the organization, to:
(1) use surveillance reports and other sources to identify and investigate local outbreaks of infectious diseases involving wildlife;
(2) develop a long-term baseline of regional data related to pathogens in migratory birds and other wildlife for analysis between and across sites to create a system to identify when and where outbreaks might occur and paths of dispersal;
(3) provide technical assistance for disease prevention and control programs;
(4) provide analytical disease findings to USAID and other federal partners; and ( 5) manage, map, and make available on an Internet database all results and information gathered under this Act. Directs the Administrator to request accredited colleges of veterinary medicine and other partners to train members of the Network to:
(1) monitor important wildlife areas around the world; and
(2) test for the presence or arrival of avian influenza and other significant pathogens of zoonotic concern or of concern to domestic or wild animals.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D, CT-3]
• and 18 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D, OR-3]
  • Rep. Yvette Clarke [D, NY-11]
  • Rep. Joseph Crowley [D, NY-7]
  • Rep. Eliot Engel [D, NY-17]
  • Rep. Bob Etheridge [D, NC-2]
  • Rep. Alcee Hastings [D, FL-23]
  • Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D, TX-18]
  • Rep. Peter King [R, NY-3]
  • Rep. Tom Lantos [D, CA-12]
  • Rep. Nita Lowey [D, NY-18]
  • Rep. Betty McCollum [D, MN-4]
  • Rep. James McGovern [D, MA-3]
  • Rep. John McHugh [R, NY-23]
  • Rep. Gregory Meeks [D, NY-6]
  • Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D, NY-8]
  • Rep. Steven Rothman [D, NJ-9]
  • Rep. José Serrano [D, NY-16]
  • Rep. Robert Wexler [D, FL-19]
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Committees

• House Agriculture
• 8 more
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Foreign Affairs
  • House Natural Resources
  • House Natural Resources
  • House Agriculture
  • House Agriculture
  • House Agriculture
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.1405

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
March 08, 2007

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• Mar 30, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
• Mar 30, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
• Mar 30, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
• Added to calendar on Mar 27, 2007: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Voice Vote..
• Mar 27, 2007: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
• Mar 27, 2007: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Voice Vote.
• Mar 16, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
• Mar 09, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Mar 08, 2007: Referred to House Agriculture
• Mar 08, 2007: Referred to House Natural Resources
• Mar 08, 2007: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
• Mar 08, 2007: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
• Mar 08, 2007: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• Introduced on Mar 08, 2007.

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Related Bills:

• S.1246

Related Issue Areas:

• Foreign policy
• Animal diseases
• Animals
• Birds
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• Communicable diseases
• Communication in medicine
• Data banks
• Epidemiology
• Geographic information systems
• Government information
• Government paperwork
• Government publicity
• Health information systems
• Health policy
• Health surveys
• Influenza
• Information networks
• International affairs
• International cooperation
• Medical care
• Medical tests
• Medicine
• Nongovernmental organizations
• Preventive medicine
• Technology
• Telecommunication
• Trade
• Veterinary medicine
• Wild animal trade
• World health

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April 17, 2008 carter doesn't quit

hr 1405: wildlife gains act hr 1746: holocaust insurance accountability act of 2007 hr 2420: international climate cooperation re-engagement act of 2007 hr 2843: library of congress public diplomacy collection act of 2007 ...

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H.R 1405: This would disqualify people from receiving federal funds if they were convicted in any crime, local, state or federal. Here is a piece of the text:. SEC. 2. DISQUALIFICATION FOR FEDERAL FUNDING. ...

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September 04, 2007 us lawmakers’ efforts to support global disease surveillance are ...

another bill (which tangentially overlaps the other bill) is the “wildlife gains act” (s. 1246, hr 1405) introduced in the senate in march of this year by joe lieberman, sen. daniel akaka [d-hi], sen. jeff bingaman [d-nm], and sen. ...

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