Say No to Captive Primate Safety Act

  Captive Primate SafetyAct (uappeal.org) 

To amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to prohibit certain 

    activities involving prohibited primate species, 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 ``Captive Primate Safety Act of 

2025''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN ACTIVITIES INVOLVING PROHIBITED PRIMATE SPECIES.

    (a) Definition of Prohibited Primate Species.--Section 2 of the 

Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 (16 U.S.C. 3371) is amended--

            (1) by redesignating subsections (h) through (l) as 

        subsections (i) through (m), respectively; and

            (2) by inserting after subsection (g) the following:

    ``(h) Prohibited Primate Species.--The term `prohibited primate 

species' means any live species of nonhuman primate, including species 

of chimpanzee, galago, gibbon, gorilla, lemur, loris, monkey, 

orangutan, tarsier, or any hybrid of such species.''.

    (b) Prohibited Acts.--Section 3(e) of the Lacey Act Amendments of 

1981 (16 U.S.C. 3372(e)) is amended--

            (1) by striking paragraph (1) and all that follows through 

        the period at the end of the undesignated matter following 

        subparagraph (B) and inserting the following:

            ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), it 

        is unlawful for any person--

                    ``(A) to import, export, transport, sell, receive, 

                acquire, or purchase in interstate or foreign commerce, 

                or in a manner substantially affecting interstate or 

                foreign commerce, any prohibited wildlife species or 

                prohibited primate species; or

                    ``(B) to breed or possess any prohibited wildlife 

                species or prohibited primate species.''; and

            (2) in paragraph (2)--

                    (A) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ``or 

                prohibited primate species'' after ``prohibited 

                wildlife species'' each place it appears; and

                    (B) by striking subparagraphs (D) and (E) and 

                inserting the following:

                    ``(D) an entity or individual that has custody of 

                any prohibited wildlife species or prohibited primate 

                species for the purpose of expeditiously transporting 

                the prohibited wildlife species or prohibited primate 

                species, as applicable, to an entity or individual 

                described in this paragraph with respect to the 

                species;

                    ``(E) an entity or individual that is in possession 

                of any prohibited wildlife species or prohibited 

                primate species that was born before the date of the 

                enactment of the Big Cat Public Safety Act, with 

                respect to a prohibited wildlife species, or the 

                Captive Primate Safety Act of 2025, with respect to a 

                prohibited primate species, if the entity or 

                individual--

                            ``(i) not later than 180 days after the 

                        date of enactment of the applicable Act, 

                        registers each individual animal of each 

                        prohibited wildlife species or prohibited 

                        primate species, as applicable, possessed by 

                        the entity or individual with the United States 

                        Fish and Wildlife Service;

                            ``(ii) does not breed, acquire, or sell any 

                        prohibited wildlife species or prohibited 

                        primate species, as applicable, after the date 

                        of enactment of the applicable Act; and

                            ``(iii) does not allow direct contact 

                        between the public and any prohibited wildlife 

                        species or prohibited primate species, as 

                        applicable; or

                    ``(F) a research facility that conducts research 

                that involves a prohibited primate species that is 

                registered with the Department of Agriculture, if the 

                research facility holds the registration in good 

                standing.''.

    (c) Regulations.--

            (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 

        enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall 

        promulgate regulations implementing the amendments made by 

        subsections (a) and (b).

            (2) Enforceability.--The enforceability of the amendments 

        made by subsections (a) and (b) shall not be affected by a 

        failure of the Secretary of the Interior to timely promulgate 

        regulations under paragraph (1).

    (d) Technical Amendments.--

            (1) Section 4 of the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 (16 

        U.S.C. 3373) is amended--

                    (A) in subsection (b)--

                            (i) in the second sentence, by striking 

                        ``subpenas'' and inserting ``subpoenas''; and

                            (ii) in the fourth sentence, by striking 

                        ``subpena issued pursuant to this paragraph'' 

                        and inserting ``subpoena issued pursuant to 

                        this subsection''; and

                    (B) in subsection (e), in the first sentence, by 

                striking ``Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 

                1976'' and inserting ``Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

                Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et 

                seq.)''.

            (2) Section 6(b) of the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 (16 

        U.S.C. 3375(b)) is amended--

                    (A) in the matter preceding the proviso, by 

                striking ``Attorney General;'' and inserting ``Attorney 

                General:''; and

                    (B) in the first sentence of the proviso, by 

                striking ``subpena'' and inserting ``subpoena''.

            (3) Section 8(a) of the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 (16 

        U.S.C. 3377(a)) is amended by striking ``Fishery Conservation 

        and Management Act of 1976'' and inserting ``Magnuson-Stevens 

        Fishery Conservation and Management Act''.