Senate File 2245 - EnrolledAn Actproviding a personal use exemption from licensing
requirements of the Meat and Poultry Inspection Act.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
   Section 1.  Section 189A.3, Code 2022, is amended to read as
follows:
   189A.3  License — fee.
   1.  a.  No A person shall not operate an establishment other
than a food establishment as defined in section 137F.1
without
first obtaining a license from the department.
   b.  Paragraph “a” does not apply to any of the following:
   (1)  A food establishment as defined in section 137F.1.
   (2)  A person who slaughters, processes, or prepares
livestock or poultry of the person’s own raising, exclusively
for the person’s household, nonpaying guests, or nonpaying
employees.
   2.  The license fee for each establishment per year or any
part of a year shall be:
   a.  For all meat and poultry slaughtered or otherwise
prepared not exceeding twenty thousand pounds per year for
sale, resale, or custom, twenty-five dollars.
   b.  For all meat and poultry slaughtered or otherwise
prepared in excess of twenty thousand pounds per year for sale,
resale, or custom, fifty dollars.
   2.    3.  The funds moneys shall be deposited with the
department. The license year shall be from July 1 to June
30. Applications for licenses shall be in writing on forms
prescribed by the department.
   3.    4.  It is the objective of this chapter to provide for
meat and poultry products inspection programs that will impose
and enforce requirements with respect to intrastate operations
and commerce that are at least equal to those imposed and
enforced under the federal Meat Inspection Act and the federal
Poultry Products Inspection Act with respect to operations
and transactions in interstate commerce; and the secretary
is directed to administer this chapter so as to accomplish
this purpose. A director of the meat and poultry inspection
service shall be designated as the secretary’s delegate to be
the appropriate state official to cooperate with the secretary
-1-of agriculture of the United States in administration of this
chapter.
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JAKE CHAPMANPresident of the Senate
______________________________
PAT GRASSLEYSpeaker of the House
   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and is known as Senate File 2245, Eighty-ninth General Assembly.______________________________
W. CHARLES SMITHSONSecretary of the Senate
Approved _______________, 2022______________________________
KIM REYNOLDSGovernor
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