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Restore
Our American Mustangs Act Bill Number:S. 1579 Short Title:
Restore Our American Mustangs Act Official
Title: A bill to amend the Wild
Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act to improve the
management and long-term health of wild free-roaming
horses and burros, and for other purposes.
Bill Sponsors:
Senator Robert Byrd (D, WV)
Bill Status:
Introduced: 8/5/2009 Read twice and referred to the Committee on
Energy and Natural Resources.
Prevention
of Equine Cruelty Act of 2009 Bill Number:S.
727 Short Title:
Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2009 Official
Title: A bill to amend title 18, United States
Code, to prohibit certain conduct relating to the use of
horses for human consumption.
Bill Sponsors:
Sen. Mary Landrieu
(D, LA)
Bill Status:
Introduced: 3/26/2009 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3925-3926)
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Conyers-Burton Prevention
of Equine Cruelty Act of 2009 Bill Number:
H.R. 503 Short Title:Prevention of Equine
Cruelty Act of 2009 Official Title:
To amend title 18, United States Code, to
prohibit certain conduct relating to the use of horses
for human consumption.
Bill Sponsors: Rep.
John Conyers (D-MI),
Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN) Bill Status: Introduced: 1/14/2009 Referred to the House Committee on the
Judiciary: 1/14/2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and
Homeland Security: 3/16/09
Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2009: Amends
the federal criminal code to impose a fine and/or prison
term of up to three years for possessing, shipping,
transporting, purchasing, selling, delivering, or
receiving any horse, horse flesh, or carcass with the
intent that it be used for human consumption. Reduces
the prison term to one year if the offense involves less
than five horses or less than 2,000 pounds of horse
flesh or carcass and the offender has no prior
conviction for this offense.
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Horse Transportation Safety Act of
2009
Bill Number: H.R. 305 Short
Title: Horse Transportation Safety Act of 2009
Official Title: To amend title 49, United States
Code, to prohibit the transportation of horses in
interstate transportation in a motor vehicle containing
2 or more levels stacked on top of one another.
Bill Sponsor:Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) Bill Status:
Introduced: 1/8/09 Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and
Transit: 1/8/09
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure: 1/8/09
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure (CR E42):
1/8/09
Wild Horse and Burro Act
Bill Number: H.R.
1018 Official Title: To amend the Wild
Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act to improve the
management and long-term health of wild free-roaming
horses and burros, and for other purposes.
Bill Sponsor: Representative
Rahall (D-WV) Bill Status: Introduced: 2/12/2009
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E256):
2/12/2009
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources:
2/12/2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests
and Public Lands: 2/17/2009
Subcommittee Hearings Held: 3/3/09
House adopted the amendment in the nature of a
substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole
House on the state of the Union: 7/17/09
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions in H.Res. 653, the
House proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the
Hastings (WA) amendment: 7/17/09
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to
the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources:
7/19/09
Amendments:
H.Amdt 358 Pass: An amendment printed in Part A of House
Report 111-212 to broaden the types of fertility
controls authorized under the bill, narrows the
definition of prohibited `commercial' uses for wild
horses and burros and clarifies the membership of the
Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Council; relaxes the
requirement that the acreage available to wild horses
and burros never be less than when the original Act
passed in 1971; and the amendment makes restoration of
the acreage a goal, rather than a requirement.
H.Amdt 359 Offered: An amendment in the nature of a
substitute printed in Part B of House Report 111-212 is
identical to the text of the wild horses and burros bill
as passed by the House in the 110th Congress. It
prohibits the commercial slaughter of horses and
estimated by CBO to cost less than $500,000 a year to
implement.
Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act amends
the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act to revise
provisions concerning the management of such animals.
Requires the Secretary of the Interior (for Bureau of
Land Management- [BLM] administered lands) or the
Secretary of Agriculture (for Forest
Service-administered lands) to:
(1) update the inventory of such animals annually and
make it publicly available on the BLM website;
(2) take specified actions to estimate populations of,
and establish management levels for, such animals;
(3) identify new rangelands, arrange for supervised
protection on private lands, and establish sanctuaries
or exclusive use areas for such animals;
(4) implement enhanced surgical or immunocontraception
sterilization or other safe methods of fertility
control;
(5) exhaust all practicable options of maintaining horse
and burro populations in the range before providing for
the capture and removal of excess animals for private
maintenance;
(6) take specified actions to promote the adoption
program;
(7) temporarily remove horses or burros from the range
if their immediate health or safety is threatened; and
(8) provide specified public information on animal
removals, range changes, and treatment. Requires
adopters of horses and burros to affirm that adopted
animals will not be slaughtered for human consumption.
Prohibits:
(1) the use of helicopters or other airborne devices to
remove such animals;
(2) containing such animals in holding facilities for
more than six months while awaiting disposition; or
(3) the destruction of such an animal unless the
Secretary determines it is terminally ill.
Expands the membership of the advisory board on the
management and protection of such animals.
Applies criminal penalties to any person who transports
a live or deceased horse or burro for processing into
commercial products.
Sets forth new reporting requirements on the management
of such animals.
