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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
HOUSE BILL 1238 By: Humphrey
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to agriculture; directing the
Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry
to not require livestock to have ce rtain tags;
directing the Department to plan compacts with other
states to allow the sale of livestock without certain
tags; providing for ratif ication compacts; 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 section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 2101 of Title 2, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry
shall not require livestock to be tagged with radio frequency
identification (RFID) devices for animal disease traceability as
required by the United States Department of Agriculture pursuant to
9 C.F.R., Section 86.4.
B. The Department shall contact other livestock-regulating
state agencies in beef -producing states to plan compacts between
those states and Oklahoma which woul d allow the sale of livestock
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without RFID tags with those states. Such proposed compac ts shall
be provided to the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives
and the President Pro Tempore of the Oklahoma State Senate, who then
shall take appropriate actions to ratify the compacts.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effec tive November 1, 2025.
60-1-10776 JL 01/11/25