Key Votes
HB 1747 - Authorizing Horse Slaughterhouses - Key Vote
Missouri Key Votes
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Legislation - Referred to Committee (Senate) - April 8, 2010
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (91-61) - April 1, 2010 (Key vote)
Title: Authorizing Horse Slaughterhouses
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill regarding the operation of horse slaughterhouses.
Highlights:
-Requires any person responsible for the operation of any business in which horses or parts of a horse are processed and sold, exposed, or offered for sale at wholesale for human food to register with the Missouri department of agriculture and secure from the director a certificate of registration to operate each separate establishment (Sec. A).
-Authorizes the director to refuse to issue a certificate of registration to any applicant if the director determines that any information provided by the applicant is false or misleading, or the business fails to comply with sanitary or wholesomeness standards, which are explicit in the Federal Meat Inspection Act (Sec. A).
-Requires an annual registration fee of $50 and an annual inspection fee to be paid to the director by each applicant to be used to pay for USDA inspection of horse meat products and horse meat processing facilities (Sec. A).
-Specifies that if any establishment operates in an unsanitary manner, the person responsible for the maintenance or operation will be deemed in violation of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and his or her registration to operate the establishment may be suspended or revoked (Sec. A).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Jan. 20, 2010
Title: Authorizing Horse Slaughterhouses
Sponsors
- James 'Jim' Viebrock (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Bert Atkins (MO - D) (Out Of Office)
- Dan W. Brown (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Eric W. Burlison (MO - R)
- Jim O. Guest (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Brian Munzlinger (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Darrell Pollock (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Rodney Schad (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Maynard Wallace (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Larry D. Wilson (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Billy Pat Wright (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
