HELP PETS Act

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Introduced 2025-01-07Topic: education

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Summary by the Congressional Research Service

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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Date	Chamber	Action	Status effect
2025-01-07	House	Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.	refer
2025-01-07		Introduced in House	introduce
2025-01-07		Introduced in House	introduce

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