S.3759: Global Wildlife Health and Pandemic Prevention Act

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  • Introduced May 19, 2020
  • Latest Major Action May 19, 2020

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Bill Summary

Global Wildlife Health and Pandemic Prevention Act This bill establishes measures to close high-risk wildlife markets and prevent outbreaks of diseases of wildlife origin. A high-risk wildlife market is a commercial market that sells or processes wildlife for human consumption where (1) the species of wildlife or regulation of the market is a risk factor for zoonotic (i.e., naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans) disease...

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Bill Actions

Date Description
May 19, 2020
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
May 19, 2020

Introduced in the Senate by Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.)

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