House File 2257 - Reprinted HOUSE FILE 2257 BY COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 559) (As Amended and Passed by the House February 26, 2024 ) A BILL FOR An Act relating to meat and poultry inspection, by providing 1 an exception for certain establishments engaged in the 2 slaughter of poultry and the preparation of poultry products 3 on a custom basis, and including implementation provisions. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 HF 2257 (2) 90 da/ns/md
H.F. 2257 Section 1. Section 189A.4, Code 2024, is amended to read as 1 follows: 2 189A.4 Exemptions. 3 1. In order to accomplish the objectives of this chapter , 4 the secretary may exempt the following types of operations from 5 inspection: 6 1. a. Slaughtering and preparation by any person of 7 livestock and poultry of the persons own raising exclusively 8 for use by the person and members of the persons household, 9 and the persons nonpaying guests and employees. 10 2. b. Any other operations which the secretary may 11 determine would best be exempted to further the purposes of 12 this chapter , to the extent such exemptions conform to the 13 federal Meat Inspection Act and the federal Poultry Products 14 Inspection Act and the regulations thereunder. 15 2. a. The secretary may allow a poultry establishment at 16 which inspection is maintained to engage in custom operations, 17 and exempt from inspection any poultry slaughtered or any 18 poultry or poultry products otherwise prepared on such custom 19 basis, provided that any carcasses, parts thereof, poultry, or 20 poultry products wherever handled on a custom basis, or any 21 containers or packages containing such articles, are separated 22 at all times from carcasses, parts thereof, poultry, or poultry 23 products prepared for sale, and that all such articles prepared 24 on a custom basis, or any containers or packages containing 25 such articles, are plainly marked Not for Sale immediately 26 after being prepared and kept so identified until delivered to 27 the owner, and that the establishment conducting the custom 28 operation is maintained and operated in a sanitary manner. 29 b. (1) Paragraph a shall be implemented, including 30 administered and enforced by the department of agriculture 31 and land stewardship, on and after the publication date of 32 the issue of the Iowa administrative bulletin that includes 33 a notice by the secretary of agriculture stating any of the 34 following: 35 -1- HF 2257 (2) 90 da/ns/md 1/ 2
H.F. 2257 (a) Federal law, including a statute or regulation, allows 1 for the implementation. 2 (b) The United States department of agriculture has 3 delivered to the department of agriculture and land stewardship 4 an official approval of the implementation in writing. 5 (2) The department of agriculture and land stewardship 6 shall send a copy of the notice to the Iowa Code editor at 7 least two weeks prior to the publication date of the Iowa 8 administrative bulletin as described in subparagraph (1). 9 (3) This paragraph is repealed on the date that paragraph 10 a is implemented. 11 -2- HF 2257 (2) 90 da/ns/md 2/ 2