[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9251 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9251

     To amend the Poultry Products Inspection Act to allow poultry 
processing facilities to perform regular slaughter and custom exempt at 
                           the same facility.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 2, 2024

 Mr. Feenstra introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Poultry Products Inspection Act to allow poultry 
processing facilities to perform regular slaughter and custom exempt at 
                           the same facility.

    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 ``Increasing Small-Scale Poultry 
Processing Opportunities Act''.

SEC. 2. ALLOWANCE OF CUSTOM-EXEMPT AND REGULAR SLAUGHTER FOR POULTRY 
              PROCESSORS.

    Section 15(c)(1)(B) of the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 
U.S.C. 464(c)(1)(B)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(B) the custom slaughter by any person, firm or 
        corporation of poultry delivered by the owner thereof for such 
        slaughter, and the processing by such slaughterer and 
        transportation in commerce of the poultry products exclusively 
        for use, in the household of such owner, by them and members of 
        their household and their nonpaying guests and employees: 
        Provided, That in cases where such person, firm, or corporation 
        engages in such custom operations at an official establishment, 
        the Secretary may exempt from such inspection at such official 
        establishment any poultry slaughtered or any poultry or poultry 
        products otherwise prepared on such custom basis: Provided 
        further, That custom operations at any official establishment 
        shall be exempt from inspection requirements as provided by 
        this clause only if the official establishment complies with 
        regulations which the Secretary may promulgate to assure that 
        any carcasses, parts thereof, poultry or poultry products 
        wherever handled on a custom basis, or any containers or 
        packages containing such articles, are separated at all times 
        from carcasses, parts thereof, poultry or poultry products 
        prepared for sale, and that all such articles prepared on a 
        custom basis, or any containers or packages containing such 
        articles, are plainly marked `Not for Sale' immediately after 
        being prepared and kept so identified until delivered to the 
        owner and that the official establishment conducting the custom 
        operation is maintained and operated in a sanitary manner;''.
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