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H.R. 2999: Veterinary Public Health Amendments Act of 2010

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H.R. 2999: Veterinary Public Health Amendments Act of 2010

111th Congress · introduced 2009-06-23 · Animals · Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2009-06-23 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Veterinary Public Health Amendments Act of 2010

Plain summary

Veterinary Public Health Amendments Act of 2010 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise a public health workforce grant program designed to increase the number of individuals in the public health workforce to include a health professions school or program of veterinary public health. Defines "veterinary public health" to include veterinarians engaged in one or more of the following areas to the extent such areas have an impact on human health: biodefense and emergency preparedness; emerging and reemerging infection diseases; environmental health; ecosystem health pre- and post-harvest food protection; regulatory medicine; diagnostic laboratory medicine; veterinary pathology; biomedical research; the practice of food animal medicine in rural areas; and government practice. Expands the public health workforce loan repayment program to make such veterinarians eligible for the program.

Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House amended), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Veterinary Public Health Amendments Act of 2010

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House amended)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2] · 30 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 2999, Veterinary Public Health Amendments Act of 2010 (2010-09-24); CBO cost estimate: H.R. 2999, Veterinary Public Health Amendments Act of 2010 (2010-09-24)

Cosponsors on this site

Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Peter Welch (D-VT), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL)

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2] reported raising $3.5 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong111-hr2999 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong111 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong111