A bill to amend the Act of July 2, 1962, to authorize intrastate quarantines under extraordinary emergency conditions relating to exotic communicable diseases.

openUnited States· United States Congress· EN

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9 November 1983

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Executive Comment Requested from USDA.

Summary

Amends Federal law to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to prohibit intrastate movement of livestock and poultry, meat products, and animal carcasses in order to prevent or eradicate exotic communicable animal diseases. States that the Secretary may take such action only after: (1) determining that measures taken by a State are inadequate; and (2) notifying the Governor and publishing a statement in the Federal Register.

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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/house-bill/4344
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