1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Chronic Wasting Disease Transmission in Cervidae Study Act . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) Chronic wasting disease continues to spread in wild, free-ranging cervid herds and in captive cervid herds across the United States, and as of June 2018, is in 25 States. (2) From June 2017 to June 2018 alone, the disease was detected for the first time in free-ranging cervid herds in Mississippi and Montana and there were new positive detections of the disease in 13 captive cervid herds from Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. (3) Five of such herds are being monitored by the National Chronic Wasting Disease Herd Certification Program of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and therefore are considered to be at low-risk for chronic wasting disease. (4) From June 2017 to June 2018, 10 States, including Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, are already fighting to control the transmission and spread of chronic wasting disease and found positive detections for the disease in additional wild, free-ranging cervid herds. (5) New positive detections in captive cervid herds were found in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. (6) There is no known cure for chronic wasting disease, no reliable live animal test to detect the disease, and only a post-mortem test that provides some measure of reliable detection of the disease. (7) Chronic wasting disease is 100 percent fatal and is arguably the most important disease threatening North American cervid resources. (8) The spread of chronic wasting disease continues to increasingly and adversely affect the economic well-being of rural communities, the hunting public, farmed cervid producers, and State wildlife and agricultural agencies, because the only known measure for reducing the spread of chronic wasting disease is the complete depopulation of herds that test positive for the