American Protein Processing Modernization Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 5038 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5038 To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to publish criteria for the review of requests by certain meat or poultry establishments to operate at alternate inspection rates, to review and respond to such requests, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES August 26, 2025 Mr. Finstad (for himself, Mr. Smith of Nebraska, Mr. Moore of Alabama, Mr. Feenstra, Mrs. Fischbach, Mr. Flood, Mr. Clyde, and Mr. Baird) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to publish criteria for the review of requests by certain meat or poultry establishments to operate at alternate inspection rates, to review and respond to such requests, and for other purposes. 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 ``American Protein Processing Modernization Act''. SEC. 2. REQUESTS FOR ALTERNATE INSPECTION RATES OF MEAT AND POULTRY. (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture (referred to in this section as the ``Secretary'') shall-- (1) publish in the Federal Register food safety criteria that the Secretary shall consider in granting a request submitted by any establishment to operate at alternate inspection rates; and (2) begin reviewing and responding to such requests from such establishments. (b) Response.-- (1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date on which a request from an establishment to operate at alternate inspection rates is submitted, the Secretary shall respond-- (A) in the case of a request th