Expanding Local Meat Processing Act of 2022

Expanding Local Meat Processing Act of 2022

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.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4709 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4709

 To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to amend regulations to allow 
  for certain packers to have an interest in market agencies, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 2, 2022

 Mr. Lujan (for himself and Ms. Ernst) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 
                        Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to amend regulations to allow 
  for certain packers to have an interest in market agencies, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Expanding Local Meat Processing Act 
of 2022''.

SEC. 2. ALLOWED INTEREST OF CERTAIN PACKERS IN MARKET AGENCIES.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall revise section 201.67 
of title 9, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of 
enactment of this Act), to exempt the packers described in subsection 
(b) from the prohibition described in that section.
    (b) Packers Described.--A packer referred to in subsection (a) is a 
packer that--
            (1) with respect to cattle or sheep, has a cumulative 
        slaughter capacity of less than--
                    (A) 2,000 animals per day; or
                    (B) 700,000 animals per year; and
            (2) with respect to hogs, has a cumulative slaughter 
        capacity of less than--
                    (A) 10,000 animals per day; or
                    (B) 3,000,000 animals per year.
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