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Latest Action: 03/28/2007 - Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4078; text as passed Senate: CR S4078) Bill TextA resolution recognizing the contributions of agricultural producers in Pennsylvania and throughout the Nation on the occasion of National Agriculture Day. 3/28/2007--Passed Senate without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Recognizes: (1) that agriculture is the number one industry in Pennsylvania; (2) the outstanding contribution of Pennsylvania's agricultural producers to the economy of the Commonwealth and the Nation; and (3) that Pennsylvania's agriculture is diverse and provides important nutrition to the people of the United States. Pays tribute to agriculture and agricultural producers in Pennsylvania and throughout the United States on the occasion of National Agriculture Day.
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Latest Action: 01/25/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1193-1194) Bill TextA bill to amend the Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter Act of 1958 to ensure the humane slaughter of nonambulatory livestock, and for other purposes. 1/25/2007--Introduced. Downed Animal and Food Safety Protection Act of 2007 - States that it is U.S. policy that all nonambulatory livestock in interstate and foreign commerce be immediately and humanely euthanized when such livestock become nonambulatory. Amends the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act of 1958 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate regulations providing for the humane treatment, handling, and disposition of nonambulatory livestock by a covered entity, including a requirement that nonambulatory livestock be humanely euthanized. Requires an entity to: (1) humanely euthanize nonambulatory livestock (while not limiting the Secretary's ability to test nonambulatory livestock for disease, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy); and (2) not move nonambulatory livestock while such livestock [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 02/02/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry. Bill TextTo amend the Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter Act of 1958 to ensure the humane slaughter of nonambulatory livestock, and for other purposes. 1/24/2007--Introduced. Downed Animal and Food Safety Protection Act - States that it is U.S. policy that all nonambulatory livestock in interstate and foreign commerce be immediately and humanely euthanized when such livestock become nonambulatory. Amends the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act of 1958 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate regulations providing for the humane treatment, handling, and disposition of nonambulatory livestock by a covered entity, including a requirement that nonambulatory livestock be humanely euthanized. Requires an entity to: (1) humanely euthanize nonambulatory livestock (while not limiting the Secretary's ability to test nonambulatory livestock for disease, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy); and (2) not move nonambulatory livestock while such livestock is conscious,[...] show full description
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Latest Action: 02/15/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2052-2053) Bill TextA bill to enhance fair and open competition in the production and sale of agricultural commodities. 2/15/2007--Introduced. Competitive and Fair Agricultural Markets Act of 2007 - Amends the Agricultural Fair Practices Act of 1967 to define specified terms. Establishes within the Department of Agriculture the Office of Special Counsel for Competition Matters, which shall be headed by a Special Counsel for Competition Matters. States that the Office shall: (1) investigate and prosecute violations of this Act and the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921; (2) serve as a liaison between the Department and the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with respect to competition and trade practices in the food and agricultural sector; and (3) maintain a staff of attorneys and other appropriate professionals. Prohibits unfair or deceptive agricultural commerce acts or practices respecting: (1) crops; (2) producer associations; and (3) agricultural production [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/17/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2013, and for other purposes. 5/17/2007--Introduced. Farm, Nutrition, and Community Investment Act of 2007 - Extends and revises various agricultural programs, including programs respecting: (1) milk and dairy; (2) conservation security; (3) conservation reserve; (4) wetlands reserve; (5) environmental quality incentives; (6) farmland protection; (7) cooperative conservation partnership initiative; (8) wildlife habitat; (9) conservation loan guarantees; (10) market access; (11) food stamps; (12) farm and ranch profitability grants; (13) community forest and open space conservation; (14) healthy forests reserve; (15) biomass and renewable energy; (16) specialty crops, farmers' markets, and nutrition; (17) organic agriculture programs; (18) crop insurance; and (18) colony collapse disorder.
Also tagged in: Actions and defenses, Administrative procedure, Agriculture, Animals, Business, Competition, Contracts, Corporate management, Department of Agriculture, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Federal employees, Fines (Penalties), Food, Government attorneys, Government employees, Government information, Government paperwork, Governmental investigations, Injunctions, Law, Legal fees, Legal services, Livestock, Marketing of farm produce, Meat packing industry, Poultry, Restrictive trade practices
Latest Action: 05/03/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. Bill TextTo enhance fair and open competition in the production and sale of agricultural commodities. 5/3/2007--Introduced. Competitive and Fair Agricultural Markets Act of 2007 - Amends the Agricultural Fair Practices Act of 1967 to define specified terms. Establishes within the Department of Agriculture the Office of Special Counsel for Competition Matters, which shall be headed by a Special Counsel for Competition Matters. States that the Office shall: (1) investigate and prosecute violations of this Act and the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921; (2) serve as a liaison between the Department and the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with respect to competition and trade practices in the food and agricultural sector; and (3) maintain a staff of attorneys and other appropriate professionals. Prohibits unfair or deceptive agricultural commerce acts or practices respecting: (1) crops; (2) producer associations; and (3) agricultural production [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Agricultural chemicals, Agricultural conservation, Agricultural credit, Agricultural machinery, Agricultural subsidies, Agriculture, Air pollution, Alcohol as fuel, Alternative energy sources, Animals, Biomass energy, Bonds, Broadband, Brownfields, Budgets, Business, Capital gains tax, Carbon cycle, Carbon dioxide, Cellulose, Charitable contributions, Coal, Coal gasification, Compressed natural gas, Congress, Congressional investigations, Congressional reporting requirements, Conservation easements, Corporation taxes, Crop insurance, Depreciation and amortization, Diesel motor, Disaster relief, Drug approvals, Easements, Economic policy, Electric appliances, Electric power plants, Electric power production, Electric power transmission, Emergency management, Employee training, Endangered species, Energy, Energy efficiency, Environmental protection, Excise tax, Farm income, Farm lands, Federal preemption, Fertilizers, Finance, Fines (Penalties), Forest conservation, Government trust funds, Grassland ecology, Habitat conservation, Hazardous substances, Hazardous waste sites, Hazardous wastes, Horticulture, Income tax, Indemnity, Infrastructure, Internet, Irrigation, Job training, Land transfers, Land use, Landfills, Law, Leases, Liquefied natural gas, Livestock, Local laws, Losses, Medical care, Medicine, Methane, Mining royalties, Natural resources, Open space lands, Pest control, Pesticides, Range management, Real estate investment trusts, Reservoirs, Restoration ecology, Rural affairs, Rural economic development, Security measures, Self-employed, Service stations, Social security, Social security taxes, Solar energy, Solid wastes, State and local government, State laws, Stocks, Tariff, Tax administration, Tax credits, Tax deductions, Tax evasion, Tax exclusion, Tax penalties, Tax returns, Tax shelters, Tax-exempt organizations, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunication, Timber sales, Trade, Trees, Veterinary medicine, Water resources, Wetlands, Wildlife conservation, Wind power
Latest Action: 10/25/2007 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 446. Bill TextAn original bill to amend the Trade Act of 1974 to establish supplemental agricultural disaster assistance and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for conservation and alternative energy sources and to provide tax relief for farmers, and for other purposes. 10/25/2007--Reported to Senate without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)Heartland, Habitat, Harvest, and Horticulture Act of 2007 - Title I: Supplemental Agricultural Disaster Assistance from the Agricultural Disaster Relief Trust Fund - (Sec. 101) Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to establish a program of supplemental agricultural disaster assistance. Establishes an Agriculture Disaster Relief Trust Fund to provide payments to farmers and ranchers who suffer losses in areas declared as disaster areas by the [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 01/12/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Bill TextA bill to provide emergency agricultural disaster assistance. 1/12/2007--Introduced. Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial assistance for: (1) crop disaster assistance for qualifying quantity or quality losses (other than sugar beets) for the 2005 and/or 2006 crop due to weather or related conditions (including disease, insects, and delayed harvest); (2) dairy losses; (3) livestock assistance for 2005 and 2006 disaster-caused losses, including losses from blizzards that began in 2006 and continued into 2007; (4) livestock indemnity payments for 2005 and 2006 disaster-caused losses, including wildfires, hurricanes, floods, extreme heat, anthrax, and blizzards that began in 2006 and continued into 2007; (5) ewe lamb replacement and retention; (6) sugar beet disaster assistance for crop year 2005 or 2006; (7) sugarcane growers in Hawaii through a payment to an agricultural transportation cooperative in Hawaii; and (8) flooded [...] show full description
Latest Action: 09/27/2008 - Mr. Clay asked unanimous consent to discharge from committee and consider. Bill TextA concurrent resolution honoring the memory of Robert Mondavi. 6/16/2008--Passed Senate without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Honors the life of Robert Mondavi, a pioneer and a patriarch of the California wine industry.
Latest Action: 06/27/2008 - Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 857. Bill TextHonoring the life of Robert Mondavi. 6/26/2008--Passed House without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Honors the life of Robert Mondavi, a pioneer and patriarch of the California wine industry.
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Latest Action: 09/27/2008 - Mr. Clay asked unanimous consent to discharge from committee and consider. Bill TextA concurrent resolution honoring the memory of Robert Mondavi. 6/16/2008--Passed Senate without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Honors the life of Robert Mondavi, a pioneer and a patriarch of the California wine industry.
Latest Action: 06/27/2008 - Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 857. Bill TextHonoring the life of Robert Mondavi. 6/26/2008--Passed House without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Honors the life of Robert Mondavi, a pioneer and patriarch of the California wine industry.
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Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 3/14/2008 S2151) Bill TextA bill to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to strengthen the food safety inspection system by imposing stricter penalties for the slaughter of nonambulatory livestock. 3/13/2008--Introduced. Downed Animal Enforcement Act of 2008 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to make it a violation of such Act to: (1) slaughter any nonambulatory livestock, or prepare any carcass or carcass part or meat or meat food product from such animal, for human food use; or (2) fail to comply with the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act of 1958. Establishes the following penalties for violations of such prohibitions: (1) gross income-based civil penalty for a first violation; (2) one-year inspection service suspension for a second violation; and (3) permanent withdrawal of inspection service a third violation. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate final regulations that provide for public disclosure of a comprehensive list of establishments at which recalled meat [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Agricultural chemicals, Agricultural conservation, Agricultural credit, Agricultural machinery, Agricultural subsidies, Agriculture, Air pollution, Alcohol as fuel, Alternative energy sources, Animals, Biomass energy, Bonds, Broadband, Brownfields, Budgets, Business, Capital gains tax, Carbon cycle, Carbon dioxide, Cellulose, Charitable contributions, Coal, Coal gasification, Compressed natural gas, Congress, Congressional investigations, Congressional reporting requirements, Conservation easements, Corporation taxes, Crop insurance, Depreciation and amortization, Diesel motor, Disaster relief, Drug approvals, Easements, Economic policy, Electric appliances, Electric power plants, Electric power production, Electric power transmission, Emergency management, Employee training, Endangered species, Energy, Energy efficiency, Environmental protection, Excise tax, Farm income, Farm lands, Federal preemption, Fertilizers, Finance, Fines (Penalties), Forest conservation, Government trust funds, Grassland ecology, Habitat conservation, Hazardous substances, Hazardous waste sites, Hazardous wastes, Horticulture, Income tax, Indemnity, Infrastructure, Internet, Irrigation, Job training, Land transfers, Land use, Landfills, Law, Leases, Liquefied natural gas, Livestock, Local laws, Losses, Medical care, Medicine, Methane, Mining royalties, Natural resources, Open space lands, Pest control, Pesticides, Range management, Real estate investment trusts, Reservoirs, Restoration ecology, Rural affairs, Rural economic development, Security measures, Self-employed, Service stations, Social security, Social security taxes, Solar energy, Solid wastes, State and local government, State laws, Stocks, Tariff, Tax administration, Tax credits, Tax deductions, Tax evasion, Tax exclusion, Tax penalties, Tax returns, Tax shelters, Tax-exempt organizations, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunication, Timber sales, Trade, Trees, Veterinary medicine, Water resources, Wetlands, Wildlife conservation, Wind power
Latest Action: 10/25/2007 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 446. Bill TextAn original bill to amend the Trade Act of 1974 to establish supplemental agricultural disaster assistance and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for conservation and alternative energy sources and to provide tax relief for farmers, and for other purposes. 10/25/2007--Reported to Senate without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)Heartland, Habitat, Harvest, and Horticulture Act of 2007 - Title I: Supplemental Agricultural Disaster Assistance from the Agricultural Disaster Relief Trust Fund - (Sec. 101) Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to establish a program of supplemental agricultural disaster assistance. Establishes an Agriculture Disaster Relief Trust Fund to provide payments to farmers and ranchers who suffer losses in areas declared as disaster areas by the [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative remedies, Aged, Agricultural conservation, Agricultural cooperatives, Agricultural credit, Agricultural education, Agricultural estimating and reporting, Agricultural extension work, Agricultural innovations, Agricultural insurance, Agricultural pollution, Agricultural prices, Agricultural research, Agricultural subsidies, Agricultural wastes, Agriculture, Agriculture in foreign trade, Air pollution, Alcohol as fuel, Alternative energy sources, American Samoa, Animals, Armed forces, Authorization, Bees, Biomass energy, Biotechnology, Block grants, Budgets, Business, Carbon cycle, Cellulose, Chesapeake Bay, Children, Climate change, Competitive bidding, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Connecticut, Conservation easements, Consumer education, Consumers, Crop insurance, Dairy industry, Day care, Defense economics, Defense policy, Defense procurement, Economic policy, Education, Electric power production, Elementary and secondary education, Energy, Energy efficiency, Energy research, Environmental protection, Environmental research, Executive departments, Farm income, Farm lands, Farm produce, Farms, Federal advisory bodies, Federal aid to education, Federally-guaranteed loans, Finance, Food, Food relief, Food safety, Food stamps, Foreign trade promotion, Forest conservation, Forest management, Fruit, Government information, Government lending, Government paperwork, Government procurement, Governmental investigations, Grants-in-aid, Great Lakes, Greenhouse gases, Habitat conservation, Higher education, Hydroelectric power, Immigrants, Immigration, Income, Income tax, Indemnity, Indians, Individual retirement accounts, Industrial buildings, Job training, Land transfers, Land use, Landfills, Law, Livestock, Marketing of farm produce, Marketing orders, Massachusetts, Methane, Military pay, Milk, Minorities, Nanotechnology, Natural resources, New York State, Nutrition, Open space lands, Organic farming, Pensions, Post exchanges, Poultry, Private forests, Product development, Public contracts, Puerto Rico, Range management, Rebates, Research and development, Rural affairs, Rural economic development, Scholarships, Science policy, Service academies, Shellfish, Small business, Soil conservation, Soil erosion, Solar energy, Solid wastes, Standards, State and local government, Strategic planning, Student loan funds, Tax exclusion, Taxation, Technology, Technology transfer, Trade, Vegetables, Water conservation, Water resources, Watersheds, Welfare, Welfare eligibility, Welfare work participation, Wetlands, WIC program, Wind power
Latest Action: 05/17/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2013, and for other purposes. 5/17/2007--Introduced. Farm, Nutrition, and Community Investment Act of 2007 - Extends and revises various agricultural programs, including programs respecting: (1) milk and dairy; (2) conservation security; (3) conservation reserve; (4) wetlands reserve; (5) environmental quality incentives; (6) farmland protection; (7) cooperative conservation partnership initiative; (8) wildlife habitat; (9) conservation loan guarantees; (10) market access; (11) food stamps; (12) farm and ranch profitability grants; (13) community forest and open space conservation; (14) healthy forests reserve; (15) biomass and renewable energy; (16) specialty crops, farmers' markets, and nutrition; (17) organic agriculture programs; (18) crop insurance; and (18) colony collapse disorder.
Also tagged in: Actions and defenses, Administrative procedure, Agriculture, Animals, Business, Competition, Contracts, Corporate management, Department of Agriculture, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Federal employees, Fines (Penalties), Food, Government attorneys, Government employees, Government information, Government paperwork, Governmental investigations, Injunctions, Law, Legal fees, Legal services, Livestock, Marketing of farm produce, Meat packing industry, Poultry, Restrictive trade practices
Latest Action: 05/03/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. Bill TextTo enhance fair and open competition in the production and sale of agricultural commodities. 5/3/2007--Introduced. Competitive and Fair Agricultural Markets Act of 2007 - Amends the Agricultural Fair Practices Act of 1967 to define specified terms. Establishes within the Department of Agriculture the Office of Special Counsel for Competition Matters, which shall be headed by a Special Counsel for Competition Matters. States that the Office shall: (1) investigate and prosecute violations of this Act and the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921; (2) serve as a liaison between the Department and the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with respect to competition and trade practices in the food and agricultural sector; and (3) maintain a staff of attorneys and other appropriate professionals. Prohibits unfair or deceptive agricultural commerce acts or practices respecting: (1) crops; (2) producer associations; and (3) agricultural production [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/28/2007 - Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4078; text as passed Senate: CR S4078) Bill TextA resolution recognizing the contributions of agricultural producers in Pennsylvania and throughout the Nation on the occasion of National Agriculture Day. 3/28/2007--Passed Senate without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Recognizes: (1) that agriculture is the number one industry in Pennsylvania; (2) the outstanding contribution of Pennsylvania's agricultural producers to the economy of the Commonwealth and the Nation; and (3) that Pennsylvania's agriculture is diverse and provides important nutrition to the people of the United States. Pays tribute to agriculture and agricultural producers in Pennsylvania and throughout the United States on the occasion of National Agriculture Day.
Also tagged in: Actions and defenses, Administrative procedure, Agriculture, Animals, Business, Competition, Contracts, Corporate management, Department of Agriculture, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Federal employees, Fines (Penalties), Food, Government attorneys, Government employees, Government information, Government paperwork, Governmental investigations, Injunctions, Law, Legal fees, Legal services, Livestock, Marketing of farm produce, Meat packing industry, Poultry, Restrictive trade practices
Latest Action: 02/15/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2052-2053) Bill TextA bill to enhance fair and open competition in the production and sale of agricultural commodities. 2/15/2007--Introduced. Competitive and Fair Agricultural Markets Act of 2007 - Amends the Agricultural Fair Practices Act of 1967 to define specified terms. Establishes within the Department of Agriculture the Office of Special Counsel for Competition Matters, which shall be headed by a Special Counsel for Competition Matters. States that the Office shall: (1) investigate and prosecute violations of this Act and the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921; (2) serve as a liaison between the Department and the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with respect to competition and trade practices in the food and agricultural sector; and (3) maintain a staff of attorneys and other appropriate professionals. Prohibits unfair or deceptive agricultural commerce acts or practices respecting: (1) crops; (2) producer associations; and (3) agricultural production [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Agriculture, Animal diseases, Animals, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Business, Consumers, Criminal justice, Department of Agriculture, Euthanasia, Executive departments, Fines (Penalties), Food, Labeling, Law, Livestock, Meat inspection, Meat packing industry, Medical care, Medicine, Protection of animals, Veterinary medicine
Latest Action: 01/25/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1193-1194) Bill TextA bill to amend the Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter Act of 1958 to ensure the humane slaughter of nonambulatory livestock, and for other purposes. 1/25/2007--Introduced. Downed Animal and Food Safety Protection Act of 2007 - States that it is U.S. policy that all nonambulatory livestock in interstate and foreign commerce be immediately and humanely euthanized when such livestock become nonambulatory. Amends the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act of 1958 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate regulations providing for the humane treatment, handling, and disposition of nonambulatory livestock by a covered entity, including a requirement that nonambulatory livestock be humanely euthanized. Requires an entity to: (1) humanely euthanize nonambulatory livestock (while not limiting the Secretary's ability to test nonambulatory livestock for disease, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy); and (2) not move nonambulatory livestock while such livestock [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Agriculture, Animal diseases, Animals, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Business, Consumers, Criminal justice, Department of Agriculture, Euthanasia, Executive departments, Fines (Penalties), Food, Labeling, Law, Livestock, Meat inspection, Meat packing industry, Medical care, Medicine, Protection of animals, Veterinary medicine
Latest Action: 02/02/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry. Bill TextTo amend the Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter Act of 1958 to ensure the humane slaughter of nonambulatory livestock, and for other purposes. 1/24/2007--Introduced. Downed Animal and Food Safety Protection Act - States that it is U.S. policy that all nonambulatory livestock in interstate and foreign commerce be immediately and humanely euthanized when such livestock become nonambulatory. Amends the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act of 1958 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate regulations providing for the humane treatment, handling, and disposition of nonambulatory livestock by a covered entity, including a requirement that nonambulatory livestock be humanely euthanized. Requires an entity to: (1) humanely euthanize nonambulatory livestock (while not limiting the Secretary's ability to test nonambulatory livestock for disease, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy); and (2) not move nonambulatory livestock while such livestock is conscious,[...] show full description
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