Congress locks in animal disease surveillance funding through 2031
H.R. 3915 — Foreign Animal Disease Prevention, Surveillance, and Rapid Response Act of 2025 · Filed by Ronny Jackson (R-TX) · 8 cosponsors · Introduced Jun 11, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill reauthorizes federal animal disease prevention and management programs under the Animal Health Protection Act, extending and increasing funding through 2030 and beyond. The Department of Agriculture will receive mandatory funding from the Commodity Credit Corporation: $30 million annually through 2025, rising to $233 million annually from 2026–2029, then $75 million annually from 2031 onward, with specified minimum allocations for surveillance, prevention, and vaccine development. The bill extends authorization for the National Animal Health Laboratory Network and the National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole function is to extend and increase mandatory federal funding for existing USDA animal disease prevention, surveillance, and vaccine programs. It is a straightforward reauthorization with no riders or hidden provisions.
What the text implies
- Mandatory funding from the Commodity Credit Corporation (a farm-support mechanism) means these programs are insulated from annual appropriations battles, ensuring continuity of disease surveillance infrastructure.
- The significant funding increase (from $30M to $233M annually in 2026–2029) signals federal recognition of rising animal disease threats, potentially including pandemic preparedness for zoonotic spillover.
- Minimum allocation floors for subsection (b) (surveillance/prevention) and (c) (vaccine development) prevent executive branch from redirecting funds away from core prevention toward other priorities.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Ordinary citizens benefit from strengthened animal disease surveillance and rapid-response capacity, which protects food supply security, prevents zoonotic disease spillover, and reduces economic losses from animal epidemics. The funding is mandatory (not discretionary) and directed to public health infrastructure, not private subsidies.
Who stands to gain
- USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
- State animal health agencies (recipients of federal grants)
- Veterinary diagnostic laboratories (National Animal Health Laboratory Network participants)
Named in the bill
USDA, APHIS, Commodity Credit Corporation, National Animal Health Laboratory Network, National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program, Animal Health Protection Act
Where it stands
8 cosponsors: 4 Democrats, 4 Republicans.
- Jun 11, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jun 11, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Agriculture · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 2 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $518,009 in lobbying spend. A filing names 24 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Ronny Jackson, the sponsor, reported $482,600 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- National Milk Producers Federation — $518,009 on 2 filings
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (2,375 characters) on Sep 18, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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