S 775referred119th Congress

SAFE Act of 2025

Introduced Feb 27, 2025Senate billPolicy area: Agriculture and FoodLast action Feb 27, 2025Sponsor: Lindsey Graham(R-SC)

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Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee

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Official summaryUpdated Feb 27, 2025

What the bill does

Save America's Forgotten Equines Act of 2025 or the SAFE Act of 2025 This bill permanently prohibits the slaughter of equines (e.g., horses and mules) for human consumption. (Current law prohibits the slaughter of dogs and cats for human consumption. This bill extends the prohibition to equines.) Specifically, this bill prohibits a person from knowingly (1) slaughtering an equine for human consumption; or (2) shipping, transporting, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donating an equine to be slaughtered for human consumption or equine parts for human consumption. The bill subjects a violator to a fine. 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. 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.

Latest official action

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Lobbying Filings Citing It

$4.4M

Reported on Those Filings, All Issues

Lobbying Clients

Recorded Votes

Timeline

Feb 27, 2025bill

Bill introduced

Apr 21, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION

Apr 21, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by VIATRIS INC

Jul 18, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MICHIGAN

Jul 21, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION

Jul 22, 2025lobbying

Official Congressional Actions

Feb 27, 2025IntroReferral

Introduced in Senate

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Feb 27, 2025IntroReferral

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee

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Lobbying Activity

Registrant	Client	Amount	Filed	Period	Issues
BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION	BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION	$1.2M	Jul 21, 2025	2025Q2	PHAHCRMMM
BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION	BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION	$1.2M	Apr 21, 2025	2025Q1	PHAHCRMMM

About this page

The lobbying table lists Senate LDA quarterly reports (LD-2) that cite this bill by number and cover a quarter of the 119th Congress. An LD-2 names a bill as “H.R. 1234” with no Congress, so a report on another Congress, which can only concern a different bill with the same number, is left out, even when it was filed after this Congress began. The amount is what the registrant reported for the whole filing, across every issue on it, not spending on this bill. Official actions and the bill summary come from Congress.gov, and votes from the roll-call record. This page no longer pairs the bill with members' stock trades: matching lobbying clients to traded companies by name, and trades to a bill by date, is not something the records establish.