U.S. Congress - S.727 Preventionof Equine Cruelty Act of 2009
S.727 - Preventionof Equine Cruelty Act of 2009
A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain conduct relating to the use of horses for human consumption. view all titles (3)
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- Short: Preventionof Equine Cruelty Act of 2009 as introduced.
- Official: A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain conduct relating to the use of horses for human consumption. as introduced.
- Short: Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2009 as introduced.
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Latest Action Mar 26, 2009Read twice and referred to the Commi... Related Bills (1) & Issues (5) Users Tracking S.727 (10)
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3/26/2009--Introduced.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....Read the Rest
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LETTER: End exporting of horses for human consumption
...scene. Write your senators and representative to enlist their support for the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R.503/S.727). Do not take your horses to auctions, because they could end up on someone's dinner plate. Check out the possibility of horse
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Today, Every (5) Minutes an American wild horse is slaughtered for ...
... members of Congress, celebrities, and representatives from agriculture and the horse industry showed their support of the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 503/S. 727), the federal bill stalled in congress which would prohibit ...
Stenholm : NRDC Spar on Atrazine | financialgoodsite.info
Instead, members have proposed new legislation in H.R.503/S.727 that will further destroy the market for horses and jobs in the horse industry. I commend the Obama Administration and Congress for beginning to focus on creating jobs and ...
Today, Every (5) Minutes an American wild horse is slaughtered for ...
... of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 503/S. 727), the federal bill stalled in congress which would prohibit the trafficking in horses for slaughter for human consumption in the United States and the export of horses for this purpose. ...
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