3.0.0 1232 2023-01-11T13:36:24Z 2023-01-11T13:36:24Z Senate S 2017-05-25 115 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-05-25T15:23:41Z PRIME Act 115 2657 HR 2017-06-26 Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture. Related bill CRS 2017-05-25 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2017-05-25 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000383 Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME] Angus King I ME S. N P000603 Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY] Rand Paul R KY 2017-05-25 True A000360 Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN] Lamar Alexander R TN 2018-07-16 False Agriculture and Food Food industry and services Food supply, safety, and labeling Livestock Meat Retail and wholesale trades Agriculture and Food 00 2017-05-25 Introduced in Senate 2017-08-29T14:40:41Z Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption Act or the PRIME Act

This bill amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to expand the exemption of custom slaughtering of animals from federal inspection requirements.

Under current law, the exemption applies if the meat is slaughtered for personal, household, guest, and employee uses. The bill expands the exemption to include meat that is:

  • slaughtered and prepared at a custom slaughter facility in accordance with the laws of the state where the facility is located; and
  • prepared exclusively for distribution to household consumers in the state or restaurants, hotels, boarding houses, grocery stores, or other establishments in the state that either prepare meals served directly to consumers or offer meat and food products for sale directly to consumers in the state.

The bill does not preempt any state law concerning: (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.

]]> PRIME Act Display Title PRIME Act Official Title as Introduced 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. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced PRIME Act Short Titles as Introduced Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption Act Introduced in Senate 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s1232is/xml/BILLS-115s1232is.xml 2017-05-25 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.