# 119-hr-3378: Racehorse Health and Safety Act of 2025 119-hr-3378, Racehorse Health and Safety Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Higgins, Clay [R-LA-3] (R-LA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3378 - As of: 2026-04-21 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: 119-hr-3378 - Congress: 119 - Title: Racehorse Health and Safety Act of 2025 - Status: introduced - Introduced: 2025-05-14 - Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Clay [R-LA-3] (R-LA) - Cosponsors: 4 - Policy area: Sports and Recreation - Touches household money: yes - Last recorded action: 2026-04-21 ## Summary **Racehorse Health and Safety Organization (RHSO) compact** would create a national interstate body to set science-based medication, testing, and racetrack safety rules for Thoroughbreds, Standardbreds, and Quarter Horses and repeal the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020. - State racing commissions and member States would share governance through a nine-member Board, with five seats reserved for the five States with the most racing days and the rest appointed by other member States. The RHSO would fund itself through a first-year startup fee and ongoing breed-specific annual assessments, and it can incur debt but cannot accept loans from covered industry participants. - Trainers, owners, and sellers would face a uniform scientific medication-control system with disciplinary sanctions such as lifetime bans, fines, purse disgorgement, and a rebuttable presumption of trainer liability for medication violations. The compact also conditions membership on state laws that require sellers to disclose bisphosphonate use before a horse’s fourth birthday. - Laboratories, racetracks, and bettors would operate under RHSO oversight for lab accreditation and testing direction, a nationwide database of horse health and injuries for study, and limits on interstate off-track wagering signals to host States that are compact members. ## Cosponsors (4) - Rep. Davis, Donald G. [D-NC-1] (D-NC), 2025-05-14T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4] (R-OK), 2025-05-14T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA-7] (D-VA), 2025-10-03T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. McBride, Sarah [D-DE-At Large] (D-DE), 2026-04-06T00:00:00.000Z ## Provisions PRIA read - New State fees to fund safety: cost, medium. This bill would let the RHSO charge startup and annual, breed‑specific fees to member States. States could raise the money from foal registration, sales, starter, or track fees on covered persons. Budgets and estimates would be provided each year by November 1, and funds for one breed could not be… - New investigations, hearings, and penalties: mixed, high. This bill would set how investigations and hearings work for safety and medication cases. Penalties could include lifetime bans, purse disgorgement, fines, and changes to race results. You would have due‑process protections, like an impartial hearing officer, the right to counsel, to confront witne… - Stricter drug rules and testing: mixed, medium. This bill would set breed‑specific medication rules for covered races. It would require no‑notice testing in and out of competition and use of accredited labs. It would ban giving, possessing, or trafficking certain drugs and methods, bar refusing a valid sample without good reason, and punish tamp… - Join compact to keep interstate wagers: mixed, medium. This bill would create an interstate Racehorse Health and Safety Organization. It would start on the later of two years after enactment or when two or more States join the compact. Member host States could allow interstate off‑track and advance‑deposit wagering signals; non‑member host States could… - Disclose risky drugs when selling horses: mixed, low. This bill would require sellers to tell buyers if a racehorse got a bisphosphonate before its fourth birthday, or another substance or method the RHSO says harms long‑term soundness. Member States would have to treat a failure to disclose as an unfair or deceptive act to join the compact. This rule… ## Related bills - 119-hr-7148: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 - 119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025 - 119-hr-5371: Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026 - 119-hr-6938: Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026 - 119-hr-7006: Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026 - 119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act ## Sources - [119-hr-3378 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3378) ## Related - [119-hr-7148: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7148) - [119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3151) - [119-hr-5371: Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Constructi…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5371) - [119-hr-6938: Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Envi…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6938) - [119-hr-7006: Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7006) - [119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1262) - [All bills in Congress](https://policyrisk.com/legislation) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3378 (as of 2026-04-21).