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SAFE Act of 2025

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Introduced:
Feb 27, 2025
Policy Area:
Agriculture and Food

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Actions
191
Cosponsors
1
Summaries
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Subjects
1
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Mar 28, 2025
Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.

Summaries (1)

Introduced in House - Feb 27, 2025 00
<p><strong>Save America's Forgotten Equines Act of 2025 or the SAFE Act of 2025</strong></p><p>This bill permanently prohibits the slaughter of equines (e.g., horses and mules) for human consumption.&nbsp;(Current law prohibits the slaughter of dogs and cats for human consumption. This bill extends the prohibition to equines.)</p><p>Specifically, this bill prohibits a person from knowingly (1)&nbsp;slaughtering an equine for human consumption; or&nbsp;(2) shipping, transporting, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donating an equine to be slaughtered for human consumption or equine parts for human consumption.</p><p>The bill subjects a violator to a fine.</p><p>The bill applies to conduct in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States. However, it does not apply to an activity carried out by an Indian for a religious ceremony.</p><p>As background, in recent years, the appropriations acts have prohibited the Department of Agriculture (USDA) from using federal funds to inspect horses before they are slaughtered for human consumption. Therefore, there are currently no USDA-inspected horse slaughter facilities in the United States.</p>

Actions (4)

Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
Type: Committee | Source: House committee actions | Code: H11000
Mar 28, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Type: IntroReferral | Source: House floor actions | Code: H11100
Feb 27, 2025
Introduced in House
Type: IntroReferral | Source: Library of Congress | Code: Intro-H
Feb 27, 2025
Introduced in House
Type: IntroReferral | Source: Library of Congress | Code: 1000
Feb 27, 2025

Subjects (1)

Agriculture and Food (Policy Area)

Cosponsors (20 of 191)

Text Versions (1)

Introduced in House

Feb 27, 2025

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Length: 2,911 characters Version: Introduced in House Version Date: Feb 27, 2025 Last Updated: Nov 15, 2025 6:01 AM
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1661 Introduced in House

(IH) ]

<DOC>

119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1661

To amend the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 to prohibit the
slaughter of equines for human consumption.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 27, 2025

Mr. Buchanan (for himself, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Nehls, Mr. Beyer, Mr.
Ciscomani, Mr. Cleaver, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mrs. Kim,
Mr. Foster, Mr. Steube, Mrs. McBath, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Ms.
Escobar, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Barr, Mr. Quigley, Mr.
Carey, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Thanedar, Mr. LaLota, Mr.
Espaillat, Mr. Carter of Louisiana, Ms. Davids of Kansas, Ms. Meng, Ms.
Pingree, Ms. Malliotakis, Mr. Pocan, Mrs. Trahan, Mr. McGarvey, Mr.
Takano, Ms. Stansbury, Ms. Budzinski, Mr. Veasey, Mr. Stanton, Mr.
Smith of Washington, Mr. Harder of California, Mr. Mrvan, Ms. Chu, Ms.
Salinas, Mr. Horsford, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Khanna, Ms. Scanlon, Ms. Matsui,
Mr. Doggett, Mr. Carson, Ms. DelBene, Ms. Perez, Ms. Omar, Ms.
McCollum, Ms. Tokuda, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, Mr. Garcia of
California, Mr. Sorensen, Mr. Correa, Mr. Lieu, Mr. Torres of New York,
Mr. Goldman of New York, Mr. Frost, Ms. Titus, Ms. Brownley, Mr.
Peters, Ms. Hoyle of Oregon, Mr. Lawler, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Schweikert, Mr.
Tonko, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mrs.
Beatty, Ms. Jayapal, Mrs. Sykes, Mr. Neal, Ms. Sherrill, Mr.
Haridopolos, Ms. Strickland, Mr. Pappas, Ms. Tlaib, Mrs. Foushee, Mr.
Amo, Mr. Latimer, Mr. Calvert, Ms. Scholten, Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania,
Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Ms. Barragan, Mr. Crow, Ms. Moore of
Wisconsin, Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick, Mr. Magaziner, Mr. Huffman, Mr.
Gomez, Ms. Ross, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Norton, Ms. Adams, Ms. Salazar, Mr.
Bilirakis, and Mr. Kean) introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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A BILL

To amend the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 to prohibit the
slaughter of equines for human consumption.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1.

This Act may be cited as the ``Save America's Forgotten Equines Act
of 2025'' or the ``SAFE Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2.
Section 12515 of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (7 U.
2160) is amended--

(1) in the section heading, by striking ``dogs and cats''
and inserting ``dogs, cats, and equines''; and

(2) in subsection

(a) , by striking ``a dog or cat'' each
place it appears and inserting ``a dog, cat, or equine''.
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