US Congress Senate Bill 4007 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on December 3 2010 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2010-12-03 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Downed Animal and Food Safety Protection Act of 2010 - 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 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, and ensure that such livestock remains unconscious until death. Prohibits an inspector at an establishment covered by the Federal Meat Inspection Act to pass nonambulatory livestock, carcass, or carcass parts through inspection. Requires an inspector or other employee at such establishment to label such material as "inspected and condemned."

Downed Animal and Food Safety Protection Act of 2010

Sen. Daniel Akaka [D-HI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-12-03		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

HB4356 (Related) 2010-03-29 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/4007/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/s4007/BILLS-111s4007is.pdf