[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2037 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2037

   To amend the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 to prohibit the 
              slaughter of equines for human consumption.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 15, 2023

  Mr. Menendez (for himself, Mr. Graham, Mr. Whitehouse, Ms. Collins, 
Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Booker, and 
Mr. Fetterman) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 to prohibit the 
              slaughter of equines for human consumption.

    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 ``Save America's Forgotten Equines Act 
of 2023'' or the ``SAFE Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON SLAUGHTER OF EQUINES FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION.

    Section 12515 of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (7 U.S.C. 
2160) is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``dogs and cats'' 
        and inserting ``dogs, cats, and equines''; and
            (2) in subsection (a), by striking ``a dog or cat'' each 
        place it appears and inserting ``a dog, cat, or equine''.
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