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SJM107...............................................by JUDICIARY AND RULES
BEEF IMPORTS - MORATORIUM - Stating findings of the Legislature and
supporting a moratorium on all imports of live cattle, precooked beef, all
beef products and potentially contaminated feed ingredients for a period of
three years or until importers can prove that the meat, live animals and
feed ingredients are free of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad Cow
Disease) for the protection of the United States cattle industry.
03/20 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
03/21 Rpt prt - to 10th Ord
03/22 ADOPTED - voice vote
Title apvd - to House
03/22 House intro - 1st rdg to Agric Aff
03/28 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
Rls susp - ADOPTED - voice vote - to Senate
03/29 To enrol
Rpt enrol - Pres signed
03/30 Sp signed - to Secretary of State
|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ||||
Fifty-sixth Legislature First Regular Session - 2001
IN THE SENATE
SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 107
BY JUDICIARY AND RULES COMMITTEE
1 A JOINT MEMORIAL
2 TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS
3 ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE STATE OF
4 IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
5 We, your Memorialists, the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
6 State of Idaho assembled in the First Regular Session of the Fifty-sixth Idaho
7 Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that:
8 WHEREAS, the outbreak of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in Europe intro-
9 duces a frightening and lethal condition that could eventually spread to many
10 parts of the world if proper measures are not taken to contain it; and
11 WHEREAS, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy is a fatal neurological disease
12 of cattle, and the dramatic increase in the incidence of the disease in Europe
13 has prompted the World Health Organization to declare its "exposure
14 worldwide," thus critically threatening the safety of our food supply and the
15 livestock industry of the United States; and
16 WHEREAS, since 1989, the United States has banned the importation of sus-
17 pected animals and products thereof, from countries known to have Bovine
18 Spongiform Encephalopathy, and has instituted surveillance for the disease in
19 the United States, and has banned the feeding of products that could poten-
20 tially carry the agent; and
21 WHEREAS, the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy agent is present in nervous
22 system tissue such as the brain and spinal cord and does not exist in milk nor
23 milk products nor muscle tissue such as steak, roasts and hamburger.
24 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the First Regular Session
25 of the Fifty-sixth Idaho Legislature, the Senate and the House of Representa-
26 tives concurring therein, that we support a moratorium on all imports of live
27 cattle, precooked beef, all beef products, and potentially contaminated feed
28 ingredients for a period of three years or until importers can prove that the
29 meat, live animals and feed ingredients are free of Bovine Spongiform
30 Encephalopathy for the protection of the United States cattle industry.
31 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate be, and she is
32 hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this Memorial to the Pres-
33 ident of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Con-
34 gress, and the congressional delegation representing the State of Idaho in the
35 Congress of the United States.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 11283
The purpose of the Senate Joint Memorial is to urge Congress to
place a moratorium on all imports of live cattle, precooked beef,
all beef products, and potentially contaminated feed ingredients
for a period of three years or until importers can prove that the
meat, live animals, and feed ingredients are free of Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy for the protection of the United States
cattle industry.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no fiscal impact to the State general fund*
Contact
Name: Ric Branch
Phone: 332-1345
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE SJM 107