Horse Transport Bill Advances

Good news! (I know, big surprise.)

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Legislation that would ban the use of double-decker trailers to transport horses advanced this week when it was passed by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure July 29.

The Horse Transportation Act of 2009 (HR305) would prohibit the interstate transport of horses in a motor vehicle containing two or more levels stacked on top of one another. U.S. Representative Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) introduced the legislation into the House in January 2009. Reps. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) and Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) co-sponsored the bill. Kirk represents Lake County, Ill., the site of an October 2007 double-decker trailer rollover accident that killed several Draft horses in transit through Illinois from Indiana.