# 119-hr-3456: CHER Act of 2025

119-hr-3456, CHER Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Malliotakis, Nicole [R-NY-11] (R-NY); status introduced (as of 2025-12-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-3456
- Congress: 119
- Title: CHER Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-05-15
- Sponsor: Rep. Malliotakis, Nicole [R-NY-11] (R-NY)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Animals
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

**Ban on keeping elephants in zoos and safari parks.** This bill would prohibit exhibiting, housing, managing, or breeding African and Asian elephants in U.S. zoological and safari parks and require transfers of existing elephants to authorized wildlife sanctuaries. - Families and visitors: People who visit zoos and safari parks would no longer see live African or Asian elephants in those venues after one year. - Zoos and safari parks: Facilities would have to stop exhibiting, housing, managing, or breeding these elephants within one year and complete transfers within three years. - Sanctuaries and federal support: Nonprofit sanctuaries accredited by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries or a similar body would be prioritized to accept transfers. The Secretary of Agriculture would run a feasibility study due in one year, could establish a grant program to help sanctuaries, and fund public education about elephant welfare.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1] (D-WA), 2025-05-29T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Study and grants for elephant transfers: benefit, low. If enacted, the Agriculture Secretary would have 1 year to study how to move elephants to authorized sanctuaries, including capacity, costs, and logistics. The Secretary could start an optional grant program to help sanctuaries that accept transferred elephants. The Secretary would also create publ…
- Zoos would end elephant exhibits, move elephants: mixed, low. If enacted, zoos and safari parks would have to stop showing, keeping, managing, or breeding African or Asian elephants starting 1 year after enactment. Parks with elephants on the day the bill is signed would need to move them to an authorized wildlife sanctuary within 3 years. Keeping elephants a…

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- 119-hr-10421: Transforming Education for the Future Act
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## Sources
- [119-hr-3456 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3456)

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- [119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3151)
- [119-hr-10421: Transforming Education for the Future Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-10421)
- [119-hr-2725: Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2725)
- [119-hr-6900: American Affordability Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6900)
- [119-hr-2086: Rights for the TSA Workforce Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2086)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3456 (as of 2025-12-21).