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Hi, folks. Please take a minute on Monday, Tuesday and/or Wednesday morning to call, fax and email the below committee members. Please be sure to read the synopsis. Sacia is removing every regulation and is basically saying if it’s moving, slaughter it. I have listed the committee members below the information on the bill. We must stop this bill!

Here’s the bill HB 583

Short Description: ANIMALS--HORSE MEATHouse SponsorsRep. Jim SaciaHearings
Agriculture & Conservation Committee Hearing Feb 18 2009 2:00PM Capitol Building Room 122B Springfield, IL
Last Action
Date
Chamber
Action
2/11/2009
House
Assigned to Agriculture & Conservation Committee
Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance
225 ILCS 635/13.1 new

225 ILCS 635/1.5 rep.

410 ILCS 605/2.1
from Ch. 8, par. 107.1

510 ILCS 65/4
from Ch. 8, par. 954

510 ILCS 70/5
from Ch. 8, par. 705

510 ILCS 70/7.5

510 ILCS 75/2
from Ch. 8, par. 229.52
Synopsis As IntroducedAmends the Illinois Horse Meat Act. Restores language that exempted certain types of horse meat from regulation under the Act. Repeals a provision that prohibits the slaughter of horses for human consumption. Amends the Animals Intended for Food Act. Expands the definition of "animal" to include "horses, mules, or other equidae". Amends the Illinois Equine Infectious Anemia Control Act. Allows equidae more than 12 months of age to enter the State for immediate slaughter without a certificate of veterinary inspection. Requires equidae entering the State for immediate slaughter to be accompanied by a consignment direct to slaughter at an approved equine slaughtering establishment. Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Creates an exemption from the general prohibition against selling, offering to sell, leading, riding, transporting, or driving on any public way any equidae that, because of debility, disease, lameness or any other cause, could not be worked in this State. Deletes a provision that prohibited injured equidae from being sent directly to a slaughter facility. Amends the Humane Slaughter of Livestock Act. Deletes a provision in the definition of the term "livestock" that excludes "horses, mules, or other equidae to be used in and for the preparation of meat or meat products for consumption by human beings". Imposes conditions on any rulemaking authority. Effective immediately.Actions
Date
Chamber
Action
2/5/2009
House
Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Jim Sacia
2/6/2009
House
First Reading
2/6/2009
House
Referred to Rules Committee
2/11/2009
House
Assigned to Agriculture & Conservation Committee


Here is a list of the committee members. You can click the names for the contact information. Just in case the links don’t work, you can go to this page and click the names http://www.ilga.gov/house/committees/members.asp?committeeID=626

Agriculture & Conservation Committee - Members96th General Assembly
Members
Notice of Hearing
Bills



Role
Representative
Party
Chairperson :
Brandon W. Phelps
D
Vice-Chairperson :
Patrick J Verschoore
D
Republican Spokesperson :
Jim Sacia
R
Member:
John D. Cavaletto
R
Member:
Shane Cultra
R
Member:
Lisa M. Dugan
D
Member:
Robert F. Flider
D
Member:
Mary E. Flowers
D
Member:
Julie Hamos
D
Member:
Donald L. Moffitt
R
Member:
Richard P. Myers
R
Member:
David Reis
R
Member:
Dan Reitz
D