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S. 782: Expanding Local Meat Processing Act of 2025
119th Congress · introduced 2025-02-27 · Agriculture and Food · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
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Expanding Local Meat Processing Act of 2025
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Expanding Local Meat Processing Act of 2025 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 animals 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. In addition, the bill includes a disclosure requirement for a market agency that has an ownership interest in, finances, or participates in the management or operation of a packer to which the agency sells consigned livestock. Specifically, the market agency must disclose on the account of sale (1) the name of the packer, and (2) the nature of the relationship between the market agency and the packer.
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Expanding Local Meat Processing Act of 2025
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Sponsor: Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM] · 2 cosponsors
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- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-119s782.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/119/s>
Record fed-us-cong119-s782 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong119 · updated 2026-11-03 by psicol fed-bills