A bill to exempt restaurant central kitchens from Federal inspection requirements.
Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to exempt from Federal inspection requirements any restaurant central kitchen that prepares ready-to-eat meat and meat food products or poultry products sent to and served at restaurants owned or operated by the same persons or firms which own or operate such central facility.
Subjects such facilities to: (1) specified recordkeeping requirements; and (2) inspections if the Secretary of Agriculture determines that sanitary conditions or practices have adulterated such meat or poultry products.
Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Voice Vote.
Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Passed House (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Committee on Agriculture. Ordered favorably reported S. 2256 in lieu of this measure.
Senate Committee on Agriculture discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Senate Committee on Agriculture discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1270.
Measure laid before Senate.
Senate struck all after the Enacting Clause and substituted the language of S. 2256 amended.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate in lieu of S. 2256 with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Voice Vote.
Passed Senate in lieu of S. 2256 with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Voice Vote.
Resolving differences -- House actions: House Agreed to Senate Amendments.
Enacted as Public Law 98-487
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House Agreed to Senate Amendments.
Measure Signed in Senate.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 98-487.
Became Public Law No: 98-487.