US Congress Senate Bill 503 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10)
Status: Introduced on March 2 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-03-02 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1580; text of measure as introduced: CR S1580-1581)
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Animal Welfare Accountability and Transparency Act This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to maintain and publicly disclose records relating to the administration of the Animal Welfare Act and the Horse Protection Act, including specified details regarding inspections, enforcement actions, regulations, registrations, and licenses under the two laws. Within 90 days of the enactment of this bill, USDA must make the records available to the public in an online searchable database in a machine-readable format on its website. The bill also amends the Internal Revenue Code to require a taxpayer who has been convicted or assessed civil penalties for violating certain provisions of the Animal Welfare Act or the Horse Protection Act to use the alternative depreciation system that increases the number of years over which property is depreciated. The taxpayer must use the system for any property placed in service during the five-year period beginning with the year in which the period for seeking judicial review of a civil penalty has lapsed or in which there has been a final judgment entered with respect to the violation, whichever is earlier.

Animal Welfare Accountability and Transparency Act

Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]
Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Margaret Hassan [D-NH]
Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-02	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1580; text of measure as introduced: CR S1580-1581)

HB1368 (Same As) 2017-03-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/503/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s503/BILLS-115s503is.pdf