1.Prohibition on shipping, transporting,
moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of
horses and other equines for slaughter for human consumption
(a)Section 2 of the Horse Protection Act
(15 U.S.C.
1821) is amended—
(1)by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), (3),
and (4) as paragraphs (2), (3), (5), and (6), respectively;
(2)by inserting before paragraph (2) (as
redesignated by paragraph (1)) the following:
(1)The term human consumption
means ingestion by people as a source of
food.
;
and
(3)by inserting after paragraph (3) (as
redesignated by paragraph (1)) the following:
(4)The term slaughter
means the
killing of 1 or more horses or other equines with the intent to sell or trade
the flesh for human
consumption.
.
(b)Section 3 of the Horse Protection Act
(15 U.S.C.
1822) is amended—
(1)by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (5)
as paragraphs (6) through (10), respectively;
(2)by adding before paragraph (6) (as
redesignated by paragraph (1)) the following:
(1)horses and other equines play a vital role
in the collective experience of the United States and deserve protection and
compassion;
(2)horses and other equines are domestic
animals that are used primarily for recreation, pleasure, and sport;
(3)unlike cows, pigs, and many other animals,
horses and other equines are not raised for the purpose of being slaughtered
for human consumption;
(4)individuals selling horses or other equines
at auctions are seldom aware that the animals may be bought for the purpose of
being slaughtered for human consumption;
(5)the Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service of the Department of Agriculture has found that horses and other
equines cannot be safely and humanely transported in double deck
trailers;
;
and
(3)by striking paragraph (8) (as redesignated
by paragraph (1)) and inserting the following:
(8)the movement, showing, exhibition, or sale
of sore horses in intrastate commerce, and the shipping, transporting, moving,
delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation in
intrastate commerce of horses and other equines to be slaughtered for human
consumption, adversely affect and burden interstate and foreign
commerce;
.
(c)Section 5 of the Horse Protection Act
(15 U.S.C.
1824) is amended—
(1)by redesignating paragraphs (8) through
(11) as paragraphs (9) through (12), respectively; and
(2)by inserting after paragraph 7 the
following:
(8)The shipping, transporting, moving,
delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of any
horse or other equine to be slaughtered for human
consumption.
.
(d)Section 6(e) of the Horse Protection Act
(15 U.S.C.
1825(e)) is amended—
(1)by striking the first sentence of paragraph
(1);
(2)by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) and
as paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively; and
(3)by inserting before paragraph (2) (as
redesignated by paragraph (2)) the following:
(1)The Secretary may detain for examination,
testing, or the taking of evidence—
(A)any horse at any horse show, horse
exhibition, or horse sale or auction that is sore or that the Secretary has
probable cause to believe is sore; and
(B)any horse or other equine that the
Secretary has probable cause to believe is being shipped, transported, moved,
delivered, received, possessed, purchased, sold, or donated in violation of
section
5(8).
.
(e)Authorization of
appropriationsSection 12 of
the Horse Protection Act (15 U.S.C. 1831) is amended by
striking $500,000
and inserting
$5,000,000
.