US Congress House Bill 3704 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-2)
Status: Introduced on December 16 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-01-17 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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 (USDA) to promulgate regulations providing for the humane treatment, handling, and disposition of nonambulatory livestock by specified entities, 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 unless required for a specific test for disease. Prohibits an inspector at an establishment covered by the Federal Meat Inspection Act from passing through inspection any nonambulatory livestock, carcass, or carcass parts and requires an inspector at such establishment to label such material as "inspected and condemned."

Downed Animal and Food Safety Protection Act

Rep. Gary Ackerman [D-NY]	Rep. Howard Berman [D-CA]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Madeleine Bordallo [D-GU]
Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Michael Grimm [R-NY]	Rep. James Himes [D-CT]
Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]	Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]	Rep. Peter King [R-NY]	Rep. Dennis Kucinich [D-OH]
Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Daniel Lipinski [D-IL]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. Nita Lowey [D-NY]
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy [D-NY]	Rep. Michael Michaud [D-ME]	Rep. George Miller [D-CA]	Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]
Rep. James Moran [D-VA]	Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]	Rep. John Olver [D-MA]	Rep. Steven Rothman [D-NJ]
Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]	Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]	Rep. Fortney Stark [D-CA]
Rep. Henry Waxman [D-CA]	Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-01-17	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
2011-12-16	House	Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/3704/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr3704/BILLS-112hr3704ih.pdf