Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to authorize the distribution, as a court may direct, of a meat or poultry article without charge to nonprofit private entities or to State, local, and Federal entities engaged in the distribution of food without charge to individuals if the article has been inspected pursuant to the appropriate Act, found to be wholesome and not adulterated, and is plainly marked "not for sale." Relieves the United States and the person from whom the meat was seized and condemned from legal responsibility for the article if it was found after inspection under the Act to be wholesome, not adulterated, and properly marked.
Considered under suspension of the rules.
On ordering a second Agreed to without objection.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Senate Committee on Agriculture discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Senate Committee on Agriculture discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote.
Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Measure Signed in Senate.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 101-205.
Became Public Law No: 101-205.
Enacted as Public Law 101-205
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