H.R. 6513 — MINKS are Superspreaders Act

This section prohibits transport, sale, receipt, acquisition, purchase in interstate or foreign commerce, breeding, or possession of American mink (*Neovison vison*) raised in captivity for fur production (whether dead or alive, or any part, product, or offspring thereof), except for entities described in subparagraphs (A) through (E) of section 3(e)(2) of the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 (i.e., federal and state agencies, public scientific or educational institutions, and wildlife rescue operations). It further directs the Secretary, subject to the availability of appropriations, to seek to purchase privately owned mink farms for amounts determined by considering (1) the mink farmer's most recent three-year average number of mink owned and (2) the infrastructure value of the farm.