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Federal Legislation - 110th Congress (2007 - 2008)
SUPPORT:
(H.R. 503) |
American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act -
To amend the Horse Protection Act to
prohibit the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving,
possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses and other
equines to be slaughtered for human consumption, and for other
purposes.
(Bill information via Thomas) Sponsor:
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
(D-IL)
Cosponsor(s): Congressman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), Congressman John Spratt, Jr. (D-SC),
Congressman Nick Rahall (D-WV) |
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SUPPORT: (S. 311) |
American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act -
To amend the Horse Protection Act to
prohibit the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving,
possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses and other
equines to be slaughtered for human consumption, and for other
purposes.
(Bill information via Thomas) Status: On April 25, 2007 the
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
ordered S. 311 to be reported without amendment favorably by a vote of
15-7. The bill now goes to the floor for consideration. As of
this time no date has been set for full Senate action. Please check
back for updates.
Sponsor: Senator
Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Cosponsor(s): Senator
John Ensign
(R-NV); Senator Robert C.
Byrd (D-WV); Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA); Senator John Kerry (D-MA);
Senator Jack Reed (D-RI); Senator Carl Levin (D-MI); Senator Thomas
Carper (D-DE); Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Senator Susan Collins
(R-ME); Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ); Senator Olympia Snowe (D-ME);
Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) |
SUPPORT:
(H.R.249)
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"To restore
the prohibition on the commercial sale and slaughter of wild
free-roaming horses and burros."
(Bill information via Thomas)
Sponsor: Congressman Nick Rahall (D-WV)
Cosponsor: Congressman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) |
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SUPPORT:(H.R.
1280) |
Sponsor(s): Representative Phil
English (R-PA) and Representative Michael Doyle (D-PA) |
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SUPPORT:(S. 714) |
Pet Safety and Protection
Act - To amend the Animal Welfare Act to ensure that all dogs
and cats used by research facilities are obtained legally.
(Bill information via Thomas) Sponsor: Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI) |
SUPPORT:
(H.R. 1691) |
Inhumane Trapping Prevention Act -
Makes it unlawful to: (1) import, export, or transport in interstate
commerce conventional steel jawed leghold traps and articles of fur
derived from animals trapped in such traps; or (2) sell or acquire
such a trap transported in violation of such provision. Prescribes
criminal penalties for violations.
(Bill information via Thomas) Sponsor:
Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY) |
SUPPORT:
(H.R. 2327) |
To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to strengthen polar
bear conservation efforts, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Representative Jay Inslee (D-WA) |
SUPPORT:
(S.1406) |
A bill to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to strengthen
polar bear conservation efforts, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Senator John
Kerry (D-MA) |
SUPPORT:
(H.R. 1507) |
Salmon Economic Analysis
and Planning Act - To ensure that proper information
gathering and planning are undertaken to secure the preservation and
recovery of the salmon and steelhead of the Columbia River Basin in
a manner that protects and enhances local communities, ensures
effective expenditure of Federal resources, and maintains reasonably
priced, reliable power, to direct the Secretary of Commerce to seek
scientific analysis of Federal efforts to restore salmon and
steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
(Bill information via Thomas)
Sponsor: Representative Jim McDermott
(D-WA) |
OPPOSE:
(H.R. 1769) |
To amend the Marine
Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to reduce predation on endangered
Columbia River salmon.
(Bill information via Thomas) Sponsor:
Representative Brian Baird (D-WA) |
State Initiatives and Legislation
(2007)
SUPPORT:
(HB 1711)Illinois |
Legislation banning horse slaughter in State of Illinois -
Amends the Illinois Horse Meat Act. Provides that it is unlawful for
any person to slaughter a horse if that person knows or should know
that any of the horse meat will be used for human consumption and that
any person who knowingly does so shall be guilty of a Class C
misdemeanor. Status: Overwhelmingly passed by Illinois
General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Blagojevich on May
24, 2007. To read more about this,
click here.
Sponsor(s):
Reps. Robert S. Molaro -
John A. Fritchey and Karen A. Yarbrough;
Sen. John Cullerton |
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