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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 516
Sponsored by Senator SMITH DB, Representative OWENS (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act gives money to an agency for an inspection program. The program relates to
small-scale meat processing and sales. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5).
Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Agriculture for purposes related to a program
of state inspection for the processing and sale of meat products from nonamenable species.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to a program of state inspection by the State Department of Agriculture; and declaring an
emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) There is appropriated to the State Department of Agriculture, for the
biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $______, for hiring
up to the equivalent of two full-time staff members for the program of state inspection au-
thorized by ORS 619.042.
(2) The department shall ensure that the staff members described in subsection (1) of
this section undertake activities in an equitable manner across this state, prioritizing:
(a) Slaughter-specific facilities.
(b) Facilities in rural and underserved communities.
(c) Facilities that receive funding under the Oregon Meat Processing Infrastructure and
Capacity Building Grant Program.
SECTION 2. This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
on its passage.
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 1877