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Expanding Local Meat Processing Act of 2023

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to revise its regulations to allow certain packers to hold an ownership interest in, finance, or participate in the management or operation of a market agency selling livestock on a commission basis. The bill applies to packers that have a cumulative slaughter capacity of (1) less than 2,000 animal per day or 700,000 animals per year with respect to cattle or sheep, and (2) less than 10,000 animals per day or 3 million animals per year with respect to hogs.

Senate Actions

IntroReferral
Mar. 15 2023	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Library of Congress Actions

IntroReferral
Mar. 15 2023	Introduced in Senate

Senate bill S813-118

Expanding Local Meat Processing Act of 2023

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