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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 58th Legislature (2022)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR ENGROSSED
SENATE BILL NO. 1110 By: Bullard, Pederson,
Bergstrom, and Stephens of
the Senate
and
Humphrey of the House
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
An Act relating to meat inspections; authorizing the
Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and
Forestry to fund universities' and colleges' research
methods of remote viewing or other digital
inspection; requiring the Departme nt to apply for use
of inspection technology from the applicable federal
agency; providing for promulgation of rules for
universities and colleges to implement a pilot
program; limiting remote inspections to intrastate
commerce unless otherwise app roved; requiring the
Department, universities, and colleges to keep videos
confidential; providing for codification; and
providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new sectio n of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 6 -181.1 of Title 2, unless the re
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
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A. The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry
is hereby authorized to fund universities a nd colleges within The
Oklahoma State System of Higher Education to research methods of
remote viewing and other digital inspection technology for meat and
poultry product inspec tions, provided that there is available
funding.
B. If the Department determi nes that there is a suitable method
of remote viewing or other digital inspection technolo gy upon
completion of the review of the research by the universities and
colleges, then the Department shall make application to th e federal
agency governing meat and poultry inspections to request use of the
technology.
C. Upon approval by the federal ag ency governing meat and
poultry inspections, the Department shall promulgate rules to
implement the use of remote viewing or other di gital inspection
technology for a pilot program to be co nducted by universities and
colleges researching the feasibility of such program and technology.
D. The use of remote viewing or other digital inspection
technology shall be restricted to inspections of meat and po ultry
products sold only in intrastate co mmerce, unless the federal agency
governing meat and poultry inspec tions approves it for interstate
commerce.
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E. The videos from remote viewing or digital inspection
obtained pursuant to this section shall be kept c onfidential by the
Department and any un iversity or college conducting research .
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2022.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT,
dated 04/13/2022 - DO PASS, As Amended.