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H.R. 8433: Preventing Future Pandemics Act of 2020

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H.R. 8433: Preventing Future Pandemics Act of 2020

116th Congress · introduced 2020-09-29 · International Affairs · Latest: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2020-09-29 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Preventing Future Pandemics Act of 2020

Plain summary

Preventing Future Pandemics Act of 2020 This bill establishes measures to address global public health risks posed by wildlife markets, which are commercial markets that sell or slaughter wildlife for human consumption as food or medicine in communities where alternative nutritional or protein sources are available. Specifically, the bill prohibits importing, exporting, purchasing, or selling live wild animals in the United States for human consumption as food or medicine. The Department of the Interior must hire, train, and deploy at least 50 new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service law enforcement attachés around the world, and the U.S. Agency for International Development must increase specified activities to address the threats and causes of zoonotic (animal-to-human transmission) disease outbreaks. Additionally, the United States must work with other United Nations member states to urge a global ban on commercial wildlife markets and enforcement of laws to end wildlife trafficking. Further, the President may impose sanctions against a foreign country or foreign nationals that the Department of State has determined are taking certain actions that enable or facilitate commercial wildlife markets. Among other reports required by the bill, the State Department must conduct a study and submit a report that includes an evaluation of (1) the impact that consumption of terrestrial wildlife as food or medicine has on the transmission of novel viral and other pathogens, (2) the role of consuming terrestrial wildlife as food or medicine in the transmission of microbes from animals to humans, and (3) the conditions at live wildlife markets that lead to this transmission.

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Official text

Preventing Future Pandemics Act of 2020

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5] · 151 cosponsors

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Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Paul Tonko (D-NY), David Schweikert (R-AZ), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (D-CA), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Chris Pappas (D-NH), Lucy McBath (D-GA), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Darren Soto (D-FL), Lori Trahan (D-MA), Ann Wagner (R-MO), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), André Carson (D-IN), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), J. Luis Correa (D-CA), Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL) and 91 more.

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5] reported raising $998,074 (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Record fed-us-cong116-hr8433 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116