Federal Animal Research Accountability Act of 2025

Key Points

• This bill requires any lab or university that gets money from the National Institutes of Health to report exactly how many animals they use for research each year. Labs would have to count every animal they breed, house, or use in experiments and share those numbers with the government.
• The reports must show what species of animals were used and what kind of pain they experienced. Labs must specifically list if animals were given pain relief drugs or if they were denied those drugs because it would have interfered with the research results.
• The government would be required to put all this information into a public database that anyone can search online. This database must be updated within three months of the government receiving the new data from the research labs.
• If this bill becomes law, the new reporting rules would not start right away. Labs and the government would have two years to set up the new systems before they are required to follow these transparency rules.

Impact Analysis

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