| 1 | 1 | | 2025 |
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| 2 | 2 | | STATE OF WYOMING |
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| 3 | 3 | | 25LSO-05161HB0150 |
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| 4 | 4 | | HOUSE BILL NO. HB0150 |
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| 5 | 5 | | Meat processors-composted materials. |
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| 6 | 6 | | Sponsored by: Representative(s) Andrew, Banks, Davis, |
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| 7 | 7 | | Neiman, Provenza, Strock and Winter and |
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| 8 | 8 | | Senator(s) Boner, Ide, Pearson and Steinmetz |
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| 9 | 9 | | A BILL |
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| 10 | 10 | | for |
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| 11 | 11 | | 1 AN ACT relating to agriculture, livestock and other |
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| 12 | 12 | | 2 animals; authorizing federal and state-licensed meat |
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| 13 | 13 | | 3 processors to sell composted material as fertilizer, soil |
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| 14 | 14 | | 4 amendment or soil conditioner; making conforming |
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| 15 | 15 | | 5 amendments; and providing for an effective date. |
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| 16 | 16 | | 6 |
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| 17 | 17 | | 7 |
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| 18 | 18 | | 8 |
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| 19 | 19 | | 9. W.S. 11-14-119 is created to read: |
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| 24 | 24 | | 14 2025STATE OF WYOMING25LSO-05162HB01501 (a) Meat processors that are licensed federally or by |
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| 25 | 25 | | 2 the state shall be permitted to compost nonedible portions |
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| 26 | 26 | | 3 of processed animals from their processing plants, |
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| 27 | 27 | | 4 excluding specified risk materials, and distribute the |
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| 28 | 28 | | 5 composted material as fertilizer, soil amendment or soil |
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| 29 | 29 | | 6 conditioner. |
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| 30 | 30 | | 7 |
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| 31 | 31 | | 8 (b) Meat processors that distribute their compost as |
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| 32 | 32 | | 9 fertilizer, soil amendment or soil conditioner shall |
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| 33 | 33 | | 10 register the fertilizer, soil amendment or soil conditioner |
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| 34 | 34 | | 11 with the department of agriculture pursuant to W.S. |
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| 35 | 35 | | 12 11-14-104 and follow any other requirements for |
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| 36 | 36 | | 13 distributing commercial fertilizer, soil amendment or soil |
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| 37 | 37 | | 14 conditioner under W.S. 11-14-101 through 11-14-118. |
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| 38 | 38 | | 15 |
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| 39 | 39 | | 16 (c) As used in this section, "specified risk |
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| 40 | 40 | | 17 materials" means: |
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| 41 | 41 | | 18 |
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| 42 | 42 | | 19 (i) The brain, skull, eyes, trigeminal ganglia, |
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| 43 | 43 | | 20 spinal cord, vertebral column (excluding the vertebrae of |
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| 44 | 44 | | 21 the tail, the transverse processes of the thoracic and |
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| 45 | 45 | | 22 lumbar vertebrae, and the wings of the sacrum), and dorsal 2025STATE OF WYOMING25LSO-05163HB0150 |
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| 46 | 46 | | 1 root ganglia from cattle thirty (30) months of age and |
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| 47 | 47 | | 2 older; and |
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| 48 | 48 | | 3 |
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| 49 | 49 | | 4 (ii) The distal ileum of the small intestine and |
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| 50 | 50 | | 5 the tonsils from all cattle. |
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| 51 | 51 | | 6 |
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| 52 | 52 | | 7. W.S. 11-14-103(a)(xxv) is amended to read: |
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| 56 | 56 | | 11 (a) As used in this act: |
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| 58 | 58 | | 13 (xxv) "This act" means W.S. 11-14-101 through |
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| 59 | 59 | | 1411-14-119. |
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| 60 | 60 | | 15 |
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| 61 | 61 | | 16This act is effective July 1, 2025. |
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| 62 | 62 | | 17 |
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| 63 | 63 | | 18 (END) |
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