Wild Horse Testing, Relocation, and Adoption (SB861)

An act relating to animals; Requiring Deoxyribonucleic acid testing when Wild Horses are captured; Requiring Conquistador Horses to be relocated to Horse Preserves; Prohibiting the slaughter of Wild Horses;  Allowing euthanasia; Allowing for adoption; Providing for the control of Wild Horse populations by means of birth control.

PRESS RELEASE: Rally to Save the Last Large Herd of Wild Horses in NM: April 7th

New Mexico Senate Bill 861 (See Cattle Industry Friendly Edits below which enable passage of this bill which is effectively anti-slaugher with these edits without saying the S word. )

EDITS TO SB861 which make it Cattle Industry Friendly and in so doing, allow it to pass. (See Below)
 

FORTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURESB 861/a

FIRST SESSION, 2005

March 4, 2005

Madam President:
 

    Your JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred

SENATE BILL 861, as amended

has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:

    1. On page 1, line 13, after the semicolon strike the remainder of the line and strike line 14 through the first semicolon.

    2. On page 1, line 20, strike "--SLAUGHTERING PROHIBITED".

    3. On page 2, line 5, strike "unbranded and".

    4. On page 2, line 6, after "land" insert "that is not an estray".

    5. On page 2, line 7, after "captured" insert "on public land".

    6. On page 3, lines 5 through 12, strike Subsection D in its entirety.

                               Respectfully submitted,
 

                               __________________________________

                               Cisco McSorley, Chairman

Adopted_______________________ Not Adopted_______________________

          (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)

                  Date ________________________

The roll call vote was 7 For 0 Against

Yes:      7

No:       0

Excused: Lopez, Martinez, Sanchez, M.

Absent:   None

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SB861 Pamphlet

SB861 Pamphlet (online) and SB861 Pamphlet (MS Word .doc)

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