PRIME Act
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Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption Act or the PRIME Act
This bill exempts from federal inspection requirements animals and meats that are slaughtered and prepared at custom animal slaughter facilities for distribution within the state. Under current law, a custom slaughter exemption applies if the meat is slaughtered exclusively for personal, household, guest, or employee uses.
Specifically, the bill expands the federal inspection exemption to include the slaughter of animals or the preparation of carcasses, meat, and meat food products that are
- 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, meat, and meat food products at a custom slaughter facility; or (2) the sale of meat or meat food products.
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4700: PRIME Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-4700/
"H.R. 4700: PRIME Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-4700/.
H.R. 4700, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-4700/.
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