H.R. 2966: American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act of 2011

112th Congress · introduced 2011-09-19 · Animals · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.

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Where it came from: introduced 2011-09-19 · official record
Who proposed it: Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
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Official title

American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act of 2011

Plain summary

American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act of 2011 - Amends 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. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to detain for examination, testing, or the taking of evidence: (1) any horse at any horse show, horse exhibition, or horse sale or auction that is sore or which the Secretary has probable cause to believe is sore; and (2) 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 such prohibition. Increases the cap on the amount of appropriations that may be used to carry out such Act.

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Official text

American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act of 2011

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5] · 166 cosponsors

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Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Gary C. Peters (D-MI), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), James P. McGovern (D-MA), William R. Keating (D-MA) and 106 more.

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Sources

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-112hr2966.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/112/hr>

Record fed-us-cong112-hr2966 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112