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FEDERAL LEGISLATION & REGULATION

Track Federal bills:
http://thomas.loc.gov

H.R. 503 (Slaughter bill introduced in house with same number as last session.) A bill 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; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

S. 311. (Companion Senate Bill) A bill 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

UPDATE: Passed the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on April 25, 2007.

Update on processing in the U.S.  Through passage of state legislation and court cases, animal rights activists have been successful in getting the plants in the U.S. The result is outlined in below articles showing abandoned, abused and neglected horses as well as a sharp drop in the price of horses in the U.S. 

Ollala man charged with horse neglect (WA)
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2008/feb/08/man-charged-in-horse-neglect-case/

48 horses seized from farm (VA)
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-01-24-0223.html

Horse found abandoned in CA euthanized (CA)
http://www.californianonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080116/NEWS01/80116014/1002

Old and unwanted (IA)
http://www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080213/NEWS/843678899/1006/news

Jackson County horse care bill:  $133,031 (MI)
http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/02/jackson_county_horse_care_bill.html