Slaughter Bill Would Establish New Data Requirements for Importing Wildlife
Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) introduced May 30 a bill in the House of Representatives to improve the regulatory process for preventing the introduction of non-native wildlife to the U.S. The bill (HR-5684) would, among other things, "establish an electronic database that describes, using scientific names to the species level (or subspecies level, if applicable), all quantities of imports of all live wildlife, and the regulatory status of the wildlife, in a form that permits that information to be rapidly accessed" and later make that information publicly available.
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The Departments of Homeland Security and Agriculture would then be required to "monitor the identities and quantities of nonnative wildlife taxa being imported, with particular emphasis on wildlife newly in the import trade to the United States," the bill said.
Text of the bill is (here).