119-s2409

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2409 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 2409

To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to exempt from inspection the 
 slaughter of animals and the preparation of carcasses conducted at a 
 custom slaughter facility, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 July 23, 2025

 Mr. King (for himself, Mr. Paul, Ms. Lummis, Mr. Merkley, Mrs. 
 Gillibrand, Mr. Cramer, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Hoeven, and Mr. Lee) 
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 amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to exempt from inspection the 
 slaughter of animals and the preparation of carcasses conducted at a 
 custom slaughter facility, 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 ``Processing Revival and Intrastate 
Meat Exemption Act'' or the ``PRIME Act''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION FOR SLAUGHTER AND PREPARATION OCCURRING AT CUSTOM 
 SLAUGHTER FACILITIES.

 

Section 23 of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 623) is 
amended--

    (1) by redesignating subsections

    (b) ,
            (c) , and
            (d) as 
 subsections
            (c) ,
            (d) , and

    (e) , respectively;

    (2) by inserting after subsection

    (a) the following:
 ``

    (b) Exemption for Slaughter and Preparation Occurring at Custom 
Slaughter Facilities.--
 ``

    (1) Definition of state.--In this subsection, the term 
 `State' means any State or territory.
 ``

    (2) Exemption.--The provisions of this title requiring 
 inspection of the slaughter of animals and the preparation of 
 the carcasses, parts thereof, meat, and meat food products at 
 establishments conducting those operations for commerce shall 
 not apply to the slaughtering by any person of animals at a 
 custom slaughter facility and the preparation at that custom 
 slaughter facility and transportation in commerce of the 
 carcasses, parts thereof, meat, and meat food products of those 
 animals if--
 ``
        (A) the slaughtering and preparation carried out 
 at the custom slaughter facility is carried out in 
 accordance with the law of the State in which the 
 custom slaughter facility is located; and
 ``
        (B) the animals are slaughtered and the 
 carcasses, parts thereof, meat, and meat food products 
 of the animals are prepared exclusively for 
 distribution to--
 ``
            (i) household consumers within the State 
 in which the custom slaughter facility is 
 located; or
 ``
            (ii) restaurants, hotels, boarding 
 houses, grocery stores, or other establishments 
 located in the State in which the custom 
 slaughter facility is located that--
 ``
            (I) are involved in the 
 preparation of meals served directly to 
 consumers; or
 ``
            (II) offer meat and meat food 
 products for sale directly to consumers 
 in the State.''; and

    (3) in subsection
            (c) (as so redesignated), in the second 
 sentence, by striking ``paragraph

    (b) '' and inserting 
 ``subsection''.

SEC. 3. NO PREEMPTION OF STATE LAW.

 Nothing in an amendment made by 

section 2 preempts any State law 
relating to--

    (1) the slaughter of animals or the preparation of 
 carcasses, parts thereof, meat, and meat food products at a 
 custom slaughter facility; or

    (2) the sale of meat or meat food products.
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