[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7438 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7438

To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to amend certain regulations to 
  clarify that livestock auction owners may have an interest in small 
            meat packing businesses, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 7, 2022

Mrs. Hartzler (for herself, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Feenstra, and Mr. Johnson 
 of South Dakota) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                      the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to amend certain regulations to 
  clarify that livestock auction owners may have an interest in small 
            meat packing businesses, 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 ``Amplifying Processing of Livestock 
in the United States Act'' or the ``A-PLUS Act''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFYING LIVESTOCK AUCTION OWNERS ALLOWED INTEREST IN SMALL 
              MEAT PACKING BUSINESSES.

    Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall revise section 201.67 of title 
9, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on October 1, 2021, to 
specify that market agencies may have an ownership interest in, 
finance, or participate in the management or operation of a packing 
entity so long as such packing entity has a cumulative slaughter 
capacity of less than 2,000 animals per day or 700,000 animals per 
year.
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