HR233Referred to Committee

HELP PETS Act

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Passed One Chamber
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Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-01-07
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Nicole Malliotakis
Nicole Malliotakis
Republican · NY · Representative
Votes with party: 95.5% (665 recorded votes)

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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

2025-01-07

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Plain-English Summary

Higher Education Loses Payments for Painful Experiments, Tests and Studies Act or the HELP PETS Act This bill prohibits an institution of higher education (IHE) from receiving federal funds if the IHE conducts or funds painful research on dogs or cats. Painful research refers to any research, biomedical training, experimentation, or biological testing classified in specified pain categories by the Department of Agriculture.

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