SAFE Act of 2025
- Bill Number
- S. 1501
- Origin Chamber
- Senate
- Congress
- 119th Congress, Session 1
- Policy Area
- Agriculture and Food
- Status
- Introduced
- Latest Action
- 2025-04-28: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
- Last Updated
- 2025-07-31T17:07:52Z
Official Summary
Safe American Food Exports Act of 2025 or the SAFE Act of 2025
This bill provides statutory authority for the Department of Agriculture to preemptively negotiate regional export ban agreements for known animal disease threats that apply only to areas affected by animal disease outbreaks to enable the continuation of exports from areas not affected by an outbreak.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the Food Safety and Inspection Service, and the Foreign Agricultural Service, in consultation with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, may negotiate the regionalization, zoning, compartmentalization, and other agreements regarding outbreaks of known animal disease threats of trade significance with countries with export markets for livestock animals or animal products from the United States.
The bill also specifies that such a negotiation should take into account accepted global research advances.
Sponsor
Cosponsors (3)
Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN], Sen. Britt, Katie Boyd [R-AL], Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Recent Actions
- 2025-04-28: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
- 2025-04-28: Introduced in Senate
Bill Versions
- Safe American Food Exports Act of 2025 — issued 2025-04-28 — PDF (3 pages)