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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 1212 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to exempt certain owners of |
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| 6 | 6 | | livestock from inspection requirements, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH31, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. W |
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| 10 | 10 | | ELCH(for himself, Mr. LEE, and Mr. SANDERS) introduced the fol- |
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| 11 | 11 | | lowing bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agri- |
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| 12 | 12 | | culture, Nutrition, and Forestry |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to exempt certain |
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| 15 | 15 | | owners of livestock from inspection requirements, and |
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| 16 | 16 | | for other purposes. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Livestock Owned by 4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Communities to Advance Local Foods Act of 2025’’ or the 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | ‘‘LOCAL Foods Act of 2025’’. 6 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SEC. 2. EXEMPTIONS FROM INSPECTION. 7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Section 23(a) of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 8 |
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| 25 | 25 | | U.S.C. 623(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘the slaughtering 9 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •S 1212 IS |
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| 29 | 29 | | by any person of animals of his own raising, and the prep-1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | aration by him and transportation in commerce of the car-2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | casses, parts thereof, meat and meat food products of such 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | animals exclusively for use by him and members of his 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | household and his nonpaying guests and employees’’ and 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | inserting ‘‘the slaughtering of animals by any person that 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | is an owner of the animals in whole or in part, or the 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | preparation or transportation in commerce of the car-8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | casses or parts thereof or meat and meat food products 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | from those animals by an owner, if such slaughter, prepa-10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ration, or transportation is exclusively for the use of an 11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | owner or the household, nonpaying guests, or employees 12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | of an owner, subject to the condition that if an owner des-13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | ignates an agent to assist in such slaughter, preparation, 14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | or transportation, the owner shall maintain custody and 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | specific identification of the carcasses or parts thereof or 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | meat and meat food products, as determined by the Sec-17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | retary’’. 18 |
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