Captive Primate Safety Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 12
- Latest action
- May 5, 2025
What it does
The Captive Primate Safety Act would amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to prohibit the import, export, transport, sale, receipt, acquisition, purchase, breeding, or possession of prohibited primate species—including chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, lemurs, monkeys, and their hybrids—in interstate or foreign commerce. It would allow limited exceptions for entities transporting primates to qualified facilities, individuals who possessed primates before the Act’s enactment (if they register within 180 days, refrain from breeding or public contact, and do not acquire more), and USDA-registered research facilities conducting primate research in good standing. The bill requires the…
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