# 115-hr-4454: Chronic Wasting Disease Management Act

115-hr-4454, Chronic Wasting Disease Management Act, is a 115th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3] (D-WI); status Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 115-hr-4454
- Congress: 115
- Title: Chronic Wasting Disease Management Act
- Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
- Introduced: 2017-11-21
- Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3] (D-WI)
- Cosponsors: 11
- Policy area: Animals
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Chronic Wasting Disease Management Act This bill requires the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service-Wildlife Services to support state and tribal efforts to address chronic wasting disease. The transmissible disease afflicts deer, elk, and moose populations. The agency must make grants to research centers to support efforts to expand and accelerate applied research on the disease. Land management agencies of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior must work cooperatively with states in researching the disease and implementing state response plans to reduce the spread and prevalence of the disease.

## Cosponsors (11)

- Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5] (R-WI), 2017-11-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Bergman, Jack [R-MI-1] (R-MI), 2018-05-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Harper, Gregg [R-MS-3] (R-MS), 2018-05-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1] (D-NH), 2018-06-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-18] (D-CA), 2018-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT] (D-VT), 2018-07-24T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6] (D-WA), 2018-07-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7] (D-CO), 2018-07-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3] (D-OR), 2018-09-12T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1] (D-OR), 2018-10-12T00:00:00.000Z
- Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] (D-DC), 2018-11-29T00:00:00.000Z

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## Sources
- [115-hr-4454 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4454)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/115-hr-4454 (as of 2025-11-18).