1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Detection, Enhanced Education, and Response Act of 2019 or the DEER Act . 2. Chronic Wasting Disease Support for States and Coordinated Response Efforts The Animal Health Protection Act is amended by inserting after section 10409A ( 7 U.S.C. 8308a ) the following: 10409B. Chronic wasting disease support for States and coordinated response efforts (a) Definition of chronic wasting disease In this section, the term chronic wasting disease means the animal disease afflicting deer, elk, and moose populations that— (1) is a transmissible disease of the nervous system resulting in distinctive lesions in the brain; and (2) belongs to the group of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, which includes scrapie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and Cruetzfeldt-Jakob disease. (b) Support for State efforts To manage and control chronic wasting disease (1) Availability of assistance The Secretary shall allocate funds made available under subsection (e) directly to State departments of wildlife and State departments of agriculture to further develop and implement chronic wasting disease surveillance, testing, management, and response activities. (2) Funding priorities In determining the amounts to be allocated to State departments of wildlife and agriculture, the Secretary shall give priority to States that— (A) have experienced a recent incidence of chronic wasting disease; (B) have a chronic wasting disease monitoring and surveillance program; and (C) have a diagnostic laboratory system certified for chronic wasting disease testing. (c) Chronic wasting disease multiagency task force (1) In general The Secretary shall establish a multiagency task force that shall— (A) establish a unified response framework to better position the Department of Agriculture to respond to the growing threat of chronic wasting disease; (B) provide a single Federal point of contact for Federal and State entities that work on chronic wasting disease issues