US Congress Senate Bill 1620 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)
Status: Introduced on May 22 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-05-22 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Pending: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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.

PRIME Act Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption Act

Sen. Angus King [I-ME]	Sen. Rand Paul [R-KY]	Sen. Lamar Alexander [R-TN]	Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN]
Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]	Sen. John Hoeven [R-ND]	Sen. Mike Lee [R-UT]	Sen. Steve Daines [R-MT]
Sen. Mike Braun [R-IN]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-05-22	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

HB2859 (Related) 2019-06-21 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
SB3922 (Related) 2020-06-09 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1620/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s1620/BILLS-116s1620is.pdf