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Legislative Progress
Introduced
January 7, 2025
Latest Action
January 7, 2025
Primary Sponsor
Nicole MalliotakisRepublican(NY)
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Higher Education Loses Payments for Painful Experiments, Tests and Studies Act or the HELP PETS Act This bill prohibits an institution of higher education (IHE) from receiving federal funds if the IHE conducts or funds painful research on dogs or cats. Painful research refers to any research, biomedical training, experimentation, or biological testing classified in specified pain categories by the Department of Agriculture.
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2026 · third_quarter · Animals
H.R.233 - HELP PETS Act- prohibits an institution of higher education from receiving federal funds if it conducts or funds painful research on dogs or cats. H.R.1802 - SPARE Act- ends taxpayer-funding for animal experiments, and other purposes S.1104/H.R.7165 - WATCH Act - improves oversight of taxpayer-funded foreign animal laboratories S.1435 - Accountability in Foreign Animal Research (AFAR) Act- restricts funding for foreign animal laboratories H.R.3043 - Accountability in Foreign Animal Research (AFAR) Act- restricts funding for foreign animal laboratories H.R.3246 - Violets Law- retirement policy for animals in federal labs H.R.4698 - PAAW Act- cuts funding for painful NIH dog and cat testing H.R.4512 - TRANS MICE Act- cuts funding for transgender animal experiments S.4172 - AFTER Act of 2026- retirement policy for animals in federal labs H.R.10522 - Companion Animal Protection Against Cruel Testing (COMPACT) Act- cuts funding for dog and cat labs, retires animals H.R.10523 - PUPPS Act- restricts breeding and confining certain dogs for experimentation, retires animals Issues related to oversight of and taxpayer funding for animal testing (no specific legislation)
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Introduced in House
Congress.gov source codes: 1000, Intro-H
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Sources: Congress.gov
Client expense: $10,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE
2026 · second_quarter · Animals
H.R.233 - HELP PETS Act- prohibits an institution of higher education from receiving federal funds if it conducts or funds painful research on dogs or cats. H.R.1802 - SPARE Act- ends taxpayer-funding for animal experiments, and other purposes S.1104/H.R.7165 - WATCH Act - improves oversight of taxpayer-funded foreign animal laboratories S.1435 - Accountability in Foreign Animal Research (AFAR) Act- restricts funding for foreign animal laboratories H.R.3043 - Accountability in Foreign Animal Research (AFAR) Act- restricts funding for foreign animal laboratories H.R.3246 - Violets Law- retirement policy for animals in federal labs H.R.4698 - PAAW Act- cuts funding for painful NIH dog and cat testing H.R.4512 - TRANS MICE Act- cuts funding for transgender animal experiments S.4172 - AFTER Act of 2026- retirement policy for animals in federal labs Issues related to oversight of and taxpayer funding for animal testing (no specific legislation)
Client expense: $10,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE
2026 · first_quarter · Animals
H.R.233 - HELP PETS Act- prohibits an institution of higher education from receiving federal funds if it conducts or funds painful research on dogs or cats. H.R.1802 - SPARE Act- ends taxpayer-funding for animal experiments, and other purposes S.1104/H.R.7165 - WATCH Act - improves oversight of taxpayer-funded foreign animal laboratories S.1435 - Accountability in Foreign Animal Research (AFAR) Act- restricts funding for foreign animal laboratories H.R.3043 - Accountability in Foreign Animal Research (AFAR) Act- restricts funding for foreign animal laboratories H.R.3246 - Violets Law- retirement policy for animals in federal labs H.R.4698 - PAAW Act- cuts funding for painful NIH dog and cat testing H.R.4512 - TRANS MICE Act- cuts funding for transgender animal experiments S.4172 - AFTER Act of 2026- retirement policy for animals in federal labs Issues related to oversight of and taxpayer funding for animal testing (no specific legislation)
Client expense: $10,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE
2026 · first_quarter · Animals
H.R.233 - HELP PETS Act- prohibits an institution of higher education from receiving federal funds if it conducts or funds painful research on dogs or cats. H.R.1802 - SPARE Act- ends taxpayer-funding for animal experiments, and other purposes S.1104 - WATCH Act- improves oversight of taxpayer-funded foreign animal laboratories S.1435 - Accountability in Foreign Animal Research (AFAR) Act- restricts funding for foreign animal laboratories H.R.3043 - Accountability in Foreign Animal Research (AFAR) Act- restricts funding for foreign animal laboratories H.R.3246 - Violets Law- retirement policy for animals in federal labs H.R.4698 - PAAW Act- cuts funding for painful NIH dog and cat testing H.R.4512 - TRANS MICE Act- cuts funding for transgender animal experiments S.4172 - AFTER Act of 2026- retirement policy for animals in federal labs Issues related to oversight of and taxpayer funding for animal testing (no specific legislation)
Client expense: $10,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE
2025 · fourth_quarter · Animals
H.R.233 - HELP PETS Act- prohibits an institution of higher education from receiving federal funds if it conducts or funds painful research on dogs or cats. H.R.1802 - SPARE Act- ends taxpayer-funding for animal experiments, and other purposes S.1104 - WATCH Act- improves oversight of taxpayer-funded foreign animal laboratories S.1435 - Accountability in Foreign Animal Research (AFAR) Act- restricts funding for foreign animal laboratories H.R.3043 - Accountability in Foreign Animal Research (AFAR) Act- restricts funding for foreign animal laboratories H.R.3246 - Violets Law- retirement policy for animals in federal labs H.R.4698 - PAAW Act- cuts funding for painful NIH dog and cat testing H.R.4512 - TRANS MICE Act- cuts funding for transgender animal experiments Issues related to oversight of and taxpayer funding for animal testing (no specific legislation)
Client expense: $10,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), SENATE
2025 · third_quarter · Animals
H.R.233 - HELP PETS Act- prohibits an institution of higher education from receiving federal funds if it conducts or funds painful research on dogs or cats. H.R.1802 - SPARE Act- ends taxpayer-funding for animal experiments, and other purposes S.1104 - WATCH Act- improves oversight of taxpayer-funded foreign animal laboratories S.1435 - Accountability in Foreign Animal Research (AFAR) Act- restricts funding for foreign animal laboratories H.R.3043 - Accountability in Foreign Animal Research (AFAR) Act- restricts funding for foreign animal laboratories H.R.3246 - Violets Law- retirement policy for animals in federal labs H.R.4698 - PAAW Act- cuts funding for painful NIH dog and cat testing H.R.4512 - TRANS MICE Act- cuts funding for transgender animal experiments Issues related to oversight of and taxpayer funding for animal testing (no specific legislation)
Client expense: $10,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), SENATE
2025 · second_quarter · Animals
H.R.233 - HELP PETS Act- prohibits an institution of higher education from receiving federal funds if it conducts or funds painful research on dogs or cats. H.R.1802 - SPARE Act- ends taxpayer-funding for animal experiments, and other purposes S.1104 - WATCH Act- improves oversight of taxpayer-funded foreign animal laboratories S.1435 - Accountability in Foreign Animal Research (AFAR) Act- restricts funding for foreign animal laboratories H.R.3043 - Accountability in Foreign Animal Research (AFAR) Act- restricts funding for foreign animal laboratories H.R.3246 - Violets Law- retirement policy for animals in federal labs Issues related to oversight of and taxpayer funding for animal testing (no specific legislation)
Client expense: $10,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), SENATE
2025 · first_quarter · Animals
H.R.233 - HELP PETS Act- prohibits an institution of higher education from receiving federal funds if it conducts or funds painful research on dogs or cats. H.R.1802 - SPARE Act- ends taxpayer-funding for animal experiments, and other purposes S.1104 - WATCH Act- improves oversight of taxpayer-funded foreign animal laboratories Issues related to oversight of and taxpayer funding for animal testing (no specific legislation)
Client expense: $10,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), SENATE