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S 3099 119th Congress Senate Agriculture and Food

DIRECT Act of 2025

Introduced: November 4, 2025 Introduced by: Marshall, Roger Republican · Kansas See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Nov 4, 2025
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Direct Interstate Retail Exemption for Certain Transactions Act of 2025 or the DIRECT Act of 2025

This bill allows meat and poultry products inspected by State Meat and Poultry Inspection programs to be sold by retail stores, restaurants, or similar retail-type establishments over the internet and shipped by a carrier in commerce (other than for export to a foreign country). The state-inspected meat and poultry products must be shipped directly to household consumers and in normal retail quantities (e.g., do not exceed 300 pounds for beef, 100 pounds for pork, and 27.5 pounds for lamb).

As background, under the inspection programs, the Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service allows states that meet certain requirements to inspect meat and poultry. The state-inspected products are currently limited to intrastate commerce, unless a state opts into a separate Cooperative Interstate Shipment Program.

What's happening now November 4, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

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Hyde-Smith, Cindy
Mississippi · Nov 4, 2025
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Tuberville, Tommy
Alabama · Nov 4, 2025
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3099: DIRECT Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3099/
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"S. 3099: DIRECT Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3099/.
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S. 3099, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3099/.
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