PRIME Act
Latest action · Aug 25, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJul 23, 2015
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption Act or the PRIME Act
This bill amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to expand the exemption of custom slaughtering of animals from federal inspection requirements.
Under current law, the exemption applies if the meat is slaughtered for personal, household, guest, and employee uses. The bill expands the exemption to include meat that is:
- 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 and restaurants, hotels, boarding houses, grocery stores, or other establishments in the state that either prepare meals served directly to consumers or sell meat and food products directly to consumers in the state.
The bill does not preempt any state law concerning the slaughter of animals or the preparation of carcasses, parts thereof, meat and meat food products at a custom slaughter facility, or the sale of meat or meat food products.
Cosponsors 21
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 23, 2015 to Sep 12, 2016; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-ME | Chellie Pingree | Original | Jul 23, 2015 |
| D-CO | Jared Polis | Original | Jul 23, 2015 |
| R-NC | Walter B. Jones | Original | Jul 23, 2015 |
| D-CA | Jared Huffman | Jul 29, 2015 | |
| D-CA | John Garamendi | Jul 31, 2015 | |
| I-MI | Justin Amash | Jul 31, 2015 | |
| R-NJ | Scott Garrett | Jul 31, 2015 | |
| R-ND | Kevin Cramer | Sep 9, 2015 | |
| R-TN | Scott DesJarlais | Sep 9, 2015 | |
| R-TN | John J. Duncan, Jr. | Sep 11, 2015 | |
| R-CO | Mike Coffman | Sep 11, 2015 | |
| R-VA | Robert J. Wittman | Sep 24, 2015 | |
| R-NV | Cresent Hardy | Sep 25, 2015 | |
| D-CA | Zoe Lofgren | Sep 28, 2015 | |
| R-WI | Glenn Grothman | Oct 7, 2015 | |
| R-NE | Jeff Fortenberry | Oct 23, 2015 | |
| R-CA | Tom McClintock | Nov 4, 2015 | |
| R-CA | Dana Rohrabacher | Dec 15, 2015 | |
| R-VA | Dave Brat | Dec 18, 2015 | |
| R-ID | Raul R. Labrador | Feb 12, 2016 | |
| R-SC | Mark Sanford | Sep 12, 2016 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Jul 23, 2015 |
| Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Subcommittee | Referred Aug 25, 2015 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Aug 25, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
- Jul 23, 2015Introduced in House
- Jul 23, 2015Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 116, July 23, 2015, page H5467.
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to exempt from inspection the slaughter of animals and the preparation of carcasses conducted at a custom slaughter facility, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- PRIME Act
- Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 23, 2015Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
