Keeping Pets and Families Together Act
This bill requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a grant program to support animal shelters, pounds, or humane societies implanting microchips into dogs and cats in their care before allowing the animals to be adopted, returned to their owners, or sold to dealers.
To amend the Animal Welfare Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture 
 to award grants to support the microchipping of dogs and cats in the 
   care of animal shelters or similar establishments, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Keeping Pets and Families Together 
Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS TO SUPPORT MICROCHIPPING OF DOGS AND CATS.

    Section 28 of the Animal Welfare Act (7 U.S.C. 2158) is amended by 
striking subsection (d) and inserting the following:
    ``(d) Grants To Support Microchipping of Dogs and Cats.--The 
Secretary shall establish a program under which the Secretary will 
award grants to entities described in subsection (a)(2) for purposes of 
supporting the capability of such entities to provide for microchipping 
of dogs and cats in their care before allowing such dogs or cats to be 
recovered by their original owner, adopted by other individuals, or 
sold to a dealer.
    ``(e) Regulations.--The Secretary shall promulgate regulations to 
carry out this section. Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of subsection (d), the Secretary shall promulgate regulations 
to carry out such subsection.''.
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Keeping Pets and Families Together Act
To amend the Animal Welfare Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to award grants to support the microchipping of dogs and cats in the care of animal shelters or similar establishments, and for other purposes.
Keeping Pets and Families Together Act
Rep. Lieu, Ted