119th Congress · introduced in the House · Feb 27, 2025
Protecting Horses from Soring Act of 2025
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Latest action (Feb 27, 2025): Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
View on Congress.govPolicy area: Animals
Congressional Research Service summary, version: Introduced in House (Feb 27, 2025)
Protecting Horses from Soring Act of 2025
This bill establishes requirements to prevent the practice of soring horses at horse events (i.e., shows, exhibitions, sales, or auctions), including by requiring soring inspections to be overseen by a new organization that is formally affiliated with the horse event industry. Generally, the soring of horses includes certain actions taken on horses' limbs to produce higher gaits that may cause pain, distress, inflammation, or lameness.
The bill directs the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the Department of Agriculture to establish the organization. The organization must be governed by a board that is appointed by the walking horse industry. The organization must appoint inspectors for each horse event and license, train, and oversee inspectors to detect soring at horse events.
The bill also directs the management of horse events to disqualify horses for specified durations if the horses are determined to be sore by objective inspections conducted by veterinarians or veterinarian technicians using certain science-based protocols.
Currently, inspectors must be designated by the management of horse events and licensed by APHIS-certified horse industry organizations. However, an APHIS rule issued in 2024 established several requirements to increase efforts to protect horses from soring practices, including requiring inspectors to be designated by APHIS. In 2025, a court upheld the parts of the rule requiring APHIS-designated inspectors but vacated other parts of the rule relating to other requirements. APHIS subsequently delayed the effective date of the rule to December 31, 2026.
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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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TWSHO, INC. · lobbying firm or registrant: JBS COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
2026 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026) · posted Oct 20, 2026 · issue area: Animals
$15,000
Paid to lobbying firm
Continue interaction with Members re HR 1675 and HR 1684 - amendments to the Horse Protection Act - all provisions; continued interaction with USDA re proposed rulemaking that would amend current regulati…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
TWSHO, INC. · lobbying firm or registrant: JBS COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
2026 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026) · posted Jul 20, 2026 · issue area: Animals
$15,000
Paid to lobbying firm
HR 1675 and HR 1684 - amendments to the Horse Protection Act - all provisions; continued interaction with USDA re proposed rulemaking that would amend current regulati…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
TWSHO, INC. · lobbying firm or registrant: JBS COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
2026 Q1 report (Jan 1, 2026 – Mar 31, 2026) · posted Apr 20, 2026 · issue area: Animals
$20,000
Paid to lobbying firm
HR 1675 and HR 1684 - amendments to the Horse Protection Act - all provisions; interaction with USDA re proposed rulemaking that would amend current regulations for th…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
TWSHO, INC. · lobbying firm or registrant: JBS COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
2025 Q4 report (Oct 1, 2025 – Dec 31, 2025) · posted Jan 20, 2026 · issue area: Animals
$20,000
Paid to lobbying firm
HR 1675 and HR 1684 - amendments to the Horse Protection Act - all provisions; interaction with USDA re proposed rulemaking regarding amended regulations for the Horse…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
TWSHO, INC. · lobbying firm or registrant: JBS COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
2025 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2025 – Sep 30, 2025) · posted Nov 6, 2025 · issue area: Animals
$30,000
Paid to lobbying firm
HR 1675 and HR 1684 - amendments to the Horse Protection Act - all provisions; interaction with USDA re proposed rulemaking regarding amended regulations for the Horse…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
TWSHO, INC. · lobbying firm or registrant: JBS COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
2025 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2025 – Jun 30, 2025) · posted Jul 21, 2025 · issue area: Animals
$30,000
Paid to lobbying firm
HR 1675 and HR 1684 - amendments to the Horse Protection Act - all provisions
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
TWSHO, INC. · lobbying firm or registrant: JBS COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
2025 Q1 report (Jan 1, 2025 – Mar 31, 2025) · posted Apr 21, 2025 · issue area: Animals
$30,000
Paid to lobbying firm
HR 1675 and HR 1684 - amendments to the Horse Protection Act - all provisions
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing