Current Status Introducing Body:Senate Bill Number:853 Primary Sponsor:Reese Committee Number:01 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Equine infectious anemia Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Agriculture & Natural Resources Computer Document Number:NO5/7425BD.94 Introduced Date:19940111 Last History Body:Senate Last History Date:19940111 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Reese Type of Legislation:General Bill
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN Leg Involved ____ ______ ____________ ______________________________ ___ ____________ 853 Senate 19940111 Introduced, read first time, 01 referred to Committee 853 Senate 19930927 Prefiled, referred to 01 CommitteeView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
TO AMEND SECTION 47-13-1360, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE QUARANTINE OF HORSES EXPOSED TO EQUINE INFECTIOUS ANEMIA, SO AS TO REVISE THE DISTANCE EXPOSED EQUINE MUST BE ISOLATED FROM UNAFFECTED EQUINES.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 47-13-1360 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 370 of 1990, is further amended to read:
"Section 47-13-1360. (A) When a reactor horse is identified on a premises, the state veterinarian shall quarantine all horses on that premises. All exposed quarantined horses tested must be properly identified properly by a mane or tail tag or other type of identification authorized by the state veterinarian. The reactor may be isolated not less than two one hundred yards feet from other unaffected equines with the knowledge of the testing accredited veterinarian and state veterinarian and only may be moved with the permission of the state veterinarian. A sign must be displayed prominently at the location of the quarantined and isolated premises of the exposed and reactor horses indicating that the premises are quarantined for exposed horses or isolated for reactor horses at the expense of the horse owner.
(B) Before a quarantine for equine infectious anemia may be lifted by the state veterinarian, all exposed animals must be tested negative no sooner than forty-five days after the reactor has been removed from the herd."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.