Supporting Our Shelters Act

This bill would change the Animal Welfare Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to set up a grant program for animal shelters and similar entities. Grants could pay for feeding, sheltering, veterinary care, recreation for animals, and hiring, training, and keeping staff. Each grant would last up to 3 years and could be renewed. Grant recipients would report each year on the animals they took in, what happened to them, and how they spent the money, and the Secretary would report yearly to Congress and write rules for the program within 180 days.

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Sponsors

• Veronica Escobar Democrat sponsor
• 5 cosponsors