§ 2146a. Searchable database requirements

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 2019

   Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020

   Pub. L. 116–94 div. B title VII § 788 · 133 Stat. 2534

   Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2146a

   Pub. L. 116–94, div. B, title VII, § 788, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 2657

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 116–94, div. B, title VII, § 788, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 2657

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 788. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law: (a) within 60 calendar days, restore on its website the searchable database and its contents that were available on January 30, 2017, and all content generated since that date; and (b) hereafter, make publicly available via searchable database, in their entirety without redactions except signatures, the following records after enactment of this Act for a subsequent period of three years: (1) all final Animal Welfare Act inspection reports, including all reports documenting all Animal Welfare Act non-compliances observed by USDA officials and all animal inventories; (2) all final Animal Welfare Act and Horse Protection Act enforcement records; (3) all reports or other materials documenting any non-compliances observed by USDA officials; and (4) within six months of receipt by the agency, all final Animal Welfare Act research facility annual reports, including their attachments with appropriate redactions made for confidential business information that USDA could withhold under FOIA Exemption 4.

2. 2022

   Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022

   Pub. L. 117–103 div. A title VII § 765 · 136 Stat. 49

   Amended · 7 U.S.C. § 2146a(b)

   Pub. L. 117–103 amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (b) read as follows: “hereafter, make publicly available via searchable database, in their entirety without redactions except signatures, the following records after enactment of this Act for a subsequent period of three years:

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 117–103 amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (b) read as follows: “hereafter, make publicly available via searchable database, in their entirety without redactions except signatures, the following records after enactment of this Act for a subsequent period of three years:

   “(1) all final Animal Welfare Act inspection reports, including all reports documenting all Animal Welfare Act non-compliances observed by USDA officials and all animal inventories; “(2) all final Animal Welfare Act and Horse Protection Act enforcement records; “(3) all reports or other materials documenting any non-compliances observed by USDA officials; and “(4) within six months of receipt by the agency, all final Animal Welfare Act research facility annual reports, including their attachments with appropriate redactions made for confidential business information that USDA could withhold under FOIA Exemption 4.”

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 765. Section 788(b) of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94) 7 USC 2146a. is amended to read as follows: “(b) Public information. Records. Reports. hereafter, make publicly available via searchable database, in their entirety without redactions except signatures, the following records: “(1) all final Animal Welfare Act inspection reports, including all reports documenting all Animal Welfare Act violations and non-compliances observed by USDA officials and all animal inventories for the current year and the preceding three years; “(2) all final Animal Welfare Act and Horse Protection Act enforcement records for the current year and the preceding three years; “(3) all reports or other materials documenting any violations and non-compliances observed by USDA officials for the current year and the preceding three years; and “(4) within six months of receipt by the agency, all final Animal Welfare Act research facility annual reports, including their attachments with appropriate redactions made for confidential business information that USDA could withhold under FOIA Exemption 4.” .

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