Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Expanding Local Meat Processing Act of 2025”.
Expanding Local Meat Processing Act of 2025
A BILL
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to amend regulations to allow for certain packers to have an interest in market agencies, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Allowed interest of certain packers in market agencies
In general— Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall revise section 201.67 of title 9, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act), to exempt the packers described in subsection (b) from the prohibition described in that section.
Packers described— A packer referred to in subsection (a) is a packer that—
with respect to cattle or sheep, has a cumulative slaughter capacity of less than—
2,000 animals per day; or
700,000 animals per year; and
with respect to hogs, has a cumulative slaughter capacity of less than—
10,000 animals per day; or
3,000,000 animals per year.
Required disclosure— In the case of a market agency that has an ownership interest in, finances, or participates in the management or operation of a packer to which the market agency sells consigned livestock, the market agency shall disclose on the account of sale the name of the packer and the nature of the relationship between the market agency and the packer.
Savings clause— Nothing in this section limits the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to adopt or enforce rules or regulations under the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 (7 U.S.C. 181 et seq.), relating to the protection of producers, competition, market integrity, or the prevention of conflicts of interest.