Bill > HR2859

Introduced Session

To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to exempt from inspection the slaughter of animals and the preparation of carcasses conducted at a custom slaughter facility, and for other purposes. This bill expands the exemption of custom slaughtering of animals from federal inspection requirements. Under current law, the exemption applies if the meat is slaughtered for personal, household, guest, and employee uses. The bill expands the exemption to include meat that is slaughtered and prepared at a custom slaughter facility in accordance with the laws of the state where the facility is located; and prepared exclusively for distribution to household consumers in the state or restaurants, hotels, boarding houses, grocery stores, or other establishments in the state that either prepare meals served directly to consumers or offer meat and food products for sale directly to consumers in the state. The bill does not preempt any state law concerning (1) the slaughter of animals or the preparation of carcasses, parts thereof, meat and meat food products at a custom slaughter facility; or (2) the sale of meat or meat food products.

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Thomas Massie (R)*,  Justin Amash (LIB),  Brian Babin (R),  Andy Biggs (R),  Earl Blumenauer (D),  Mo Brooks (R),  Ken Buck (R),  Ted Budd (R),  Tim Burchett (R),  Ben Cline (R),  Michael Cloud (R),  Joe Courtney (D),  Warren Davidson (R),  Rodney Davis (R),  Jeff Duncan (R),  Matt Gaetz (R),  John Garamendi (D),  Louie Gohmert (R),  Jared Golden (D),  Paul Gosar (R),  Mark Green (R),  Glenn Grothman (R),  Brett Guthrie (R),  Jaime Herrera Beutler (R),  Jared Huffman (D),  Steve King (R),  Debbie Lesko (R),  Billy Long (R),  Tom McClintock (R),  David McKinley (R),  Mark Meadows (R),  Carol Miller (R),  Alex Mooney (R),  Ralph Norman (R),  Scott Perry (R),  Chellie Pingree (D),  Bill Posey (R),  David Roe (R),  Chip Roy (R),  F. James Sensenbrenner (R),  Jason Smith (R),  Lloyd Smucker (R),  Darren Soto (D),  Abigail Spanberger (D),  Elise Stefanik (R),  Greg Steube (R),  Tom Tiffany (R),  Scott Tipton (R),  Rashida Tlaib (D),  Greg Walden (R),  Mark Walker (R),  Randy Weber (R),  Daniel Webster (R),  Rob Wittman (R),  Ron Wright (R),  Ted Yoho (R), 

Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture. (on 06/21/2019)

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