Summary of Amendments Submitted to the Rules Committee for
H.R. 503 - 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.

Listed in Alphabetical Order
September 06, 2006 5:00pm 
 

Goodlatte (VA)	#2	(LATE)  Provides that the Federal government will take over the burden of caring for unwanted horses.
Goodlatte (VA)	#3	(LATE)  Provides that H.R. 503 will take effect with respect to any State where it is in violation of the laws thereof to ship, transport, move, deliver, receive, possess, purchase, sell, or donate any horse or other equine to be slaughtered for human consumption.
Goodlatte (VA)	#4	(LATE)  Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to consider the prohibition on the movement, showing, exhibition, or sale of sore horses, and prohibition on the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses to be slaughtered for human consumption when carrying out antemortem inspections as required by the Federal Meat Inspection Act.
Goodlatte (VA)	#5	(LATE)  Provides that the prohibitions in H.R. 503 would not apply with respect to slaughter in existing horse plants.
Goodlatte (VA)	#6	(REVISED)  (LATE)  Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to make a determination, based on empirical evidence, that the prohibition on shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses to be slaughtered for human consumption is supported by a majority of horse owners before the prohibition can go into effect.
Goodlatte (VA)	#7	(LATE)  Replaces "horse or other equine" in H.R. 503 with "registered thoroughbred horse".
Goodlatte (VA)	#8	(LATE)  Provides that the Federal government will reimburse State and local governments for the costs incurred in caring for abandoned or unwanted horses.
Goodlatte (VA)	#9	(LATE)  Provides that the Secretary of Agriculture must certify that sufficient horse sanctuaries exist to care for unwanted horses before the law will take effect.
King, Steve (IA)	#1	Provides that equines can be shipped, transported, moved, delivered, received, possessed, purchased, sold, or donated for slaughter for human consumption by Native Americans or people from other cultures that eat equine meat.