[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 796 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 796

To provide for the protection of wild horses within the Ozark National 
 Scenic Riverways, Missouri, and prohibit the removal of such horses, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                 May 1 (legislative day, May 11), 1995

Mr. Bond (for himself and Mr. Ashcroft) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the protection of wild horses within the Ozark National 
 Scenic Riverways, Missouri, and prohibit the removal of such horses, 
                        and for other purposes.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Ozark Wild Horses Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF FREE-ROAMING HORSES.

    The first section of the Act entitled ``An Act to provide for the 
establishment of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways in the State of 
Missouri, and for other purposes'', approved August 27, 1964 (16 U.S.C. 
460m), is amended in the first sentence by inserting ``protection and 
preservation of free-roaming horses,'' after ``wildlife,''.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION OF REMOVAL OF HORSES.

    Section 5 of the Act entitled ``An Act to provide for the 
establishment of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways in the State of 
Missouri, and for other purposes'', approved August 27, 1964 (16 U.S.C. 
460m-4), is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) The Secretary may not remove, or allow or assist in the 
removal of, any free-roaming horse from Federal land within the 
boundaries of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, except in the case 
of a medical emergency or natural disaster.''.
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