As discussed in a July 30 Communiqué post, Rep. Rod Blum (R-IA) introduced H.R.3136, The Enforcement Transparency Act of 2015, which would require the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to make the table of penalty guidelines for violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act used by the Investigative and Enforcement Services at the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) available to the public on the USDA website. Since introduction, the bill has been co-sponsored by 11 other representatives from both parties and was referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture in August.
With Congress soon returning from recess, the National Association for Biomedical Research (NABR), of which SOT is a member, is asking its members to encourage the Subcommittee to consider the bill by showing their support for the bill. You can easily show your support for The Enforcement Transparency Act of 2015 by using NABR’s Capwiz system to email your representative.