Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Sale and Adoption Act of 2005

Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Sale and Adoption Act of 2005 - Provides, with respect to the protection, management, and control of wild free-roaming horses and burros on public lands, for: (1) removing the limitation on the number of animals that may be adopted; and (2) the sale of excess wild free-roaming horses and burros for which an adoption demand by qualified individuals does not exist. Sets a $25 minimum adoption fee required for the adoption of an excess animal.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2993 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2993

 To provide for the sale of excess wild free-roaming horses and burros.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 20, 2005

 Mr. Porter (for himself, Ms. Berkley, and Mr. Gibbons) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for the sale of excess wild free-roaming horses and burros.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros 
Sale and Adoption Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. SALE AND ADOPTION OF WILD FREE-ROAMING HORSES AND BURROS.

    Section 3 of Public Law 92-195 (16 U.S.C. 1333) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(2)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``: Provided'' 
                and all that follows through ``adopting party''; and
                    (B) by striking subparagraph (C) and inserting the 
                following:
                    ``(C) Additional excess wild free-roaming horses 
                and burros for which an adoption demand by qualified 
                individuals does not exist shall be sold under 
                subsection (e).'';
            (2) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in the heading, by striking ``Limited Number 
                Of''; and
                    (B) in the text, by striking ``not more than four 
                animals'' and inserting ``excess animals transferred'';
            (3) in subsection (e)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking subparagraph (A) 
                and inserting the following:
                    ``(A) the Secretary determines that there is no 
                adoption demand from qualified individuals for the 
                excess animal;'';
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``without 
                limitation''; and
                    (C) by striking paragraph (4) and inserting the 
                following:
            ``(4) Effect of sale.--At the end of a 1-year period 
        following the sale of any excess animal under this subsection--
                    ``(A) the Secretary shall grant to the transferee 
                title to the excess animal; and
                    ``(B) the excess animal transferred shall no longer 
                be considered to be a wild free-roaming horse or burro 
                for purposes of this Act.''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Minimum Fees and Bids.--The minimum adoption fee required 
under this section shall be $25.''.
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