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<dc:title>118 S2414 ES: Working Dog Health and Welfare Act of 2023</dc:title> |
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<congress display="yes">118th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">2d Session</session><legis-num display="yes">S. 2414</legis-num><current-chamber display="no">IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber><legis-type display="yes">AN ACT</legis-type><official-title display="yes">To require agencies with working dog programs to implement the recommendations of the Government Accountability Office relating to the health and welfare of working dogs, and for other purposes.</official-title></form><legis-body display-enacting-clause="yes-display-enacting-clause" style="OLC"><section id="idbf68d375-abe7-4215-847a-4825d4989210" section-type="section-one" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>1.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Working Dog Health and Welfare Act of 2023</short-title></quote>.</text></section><section id="id4dec0cc4-2c6d-4e9f-90e1-f5501c81c78e" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>2.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Implementation of working dog recommendations</header><subsection id="id3623f803-9db7-4a24-9722-49a9da2407c3" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text><paragraph id="id7d49e3ea-d4a6-4eb2-89fe-ceef6af3dd79" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Agency</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>agency</term> has the meaning given the term in section 551 of title 5, United States Code.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id7f0c27da-51b9-4435-9881-ac3568151dec" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Working dog</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>working dog</term> means a dog that has received specialized training in order to perform a particular productive function.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id3f5cc5aa-55e1-450a-a726-78dc006d771c" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum> (3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Working dog program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>working dog program</term> means a program, the operations of which include the employment of working dogs.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id657b1dc6-9b05-4e23-984b-e445e8d10255" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Working dog recommendations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>working dog recommendations</term> means the recommendations included in the report of the Government Accountability Office entitled <quote>Working Dogs: Federal Agencies Need to Better Address Health and Welfare</quote>, as published in October 2022. </text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idf3265e53-49e5-4b91-b18e-f016743172ef" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Implementation</header><paragraph id="ide322407f-83f9-464f-b2e2-79369572d04a" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the head of each agency that manages a working dog program shall implement the working dog recommendations.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id8a178c20-8897-4fc0-97ea-bc2b3f49e1c1" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Contractors</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, a contractor that manages a working dog program on behalf of an agency shall implement the working dog recommendations.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idd85c7113-daff-42ac-9e6b-399fa77e66d2" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 60 days after the date on which the head of an agency or a contractor that manages a working dog program on behalf of an agency implements the working dog recommendations under this subsection, the head of the agency shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Oversight and Accountability of the House of Representatives a report on the explicit steps the agency or contractor has taken to complete the implementation.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id6d237fbd-ab6f-4e0d-8cde-8a66a6309a4a" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Foreign partners</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall take appropriate steps to ensure that donations of working dogs provided to foreign partners by the Department of State are executed and monitored according to the working dog recommendations.</text></subsection><subsection id="id84a2c6df-839a-415a-b5cb-54fda78d674d" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">New working dog programs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to an agency that establishes a working dog program, or enters into a contract for the establishment of a working dog program, after the date of enactment of this Act, the head of the agency shall ensure that the working dog program implements the working dog recommendations.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3e3f343ab77f49e19d4a7c81c273abeb" changed="not-changed"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">No additional funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No additional funds are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of carrying out this Act.</text></subsection></section></legis-body><attestation><attestation-group><attestation-date date="20240111" chamber="Senate">Passed the Senate January 11, 2024.</attestation-date><attestor display="no"></attestor><role>Secretary</role></attestation-group></attestation><endorsement 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