HR7130-118

Introduced

To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to ensure that consumers can make informed decisions in choosing between meat and poultry products and imitation meat and imitation poultry products, and for other purposes.

118th Congress Introduced Jan 30, 2024

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Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to ensure that consumers can make informed decisions in choosing between meat and poultry products and imitation meat and imitation poultry products, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients. The main policy domain is Healthcare, Trade, Government Operations.

Who Benefits and How

health care providers and patients may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, health care providers and patients may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section HDDB6FACD809345FBAB126308289E6560: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fair and Accurate Ingredient Representation on Labels Act of 2024 or the FAIR Labels Act of 2024.
  • Section H22877B63F47B4C009E68D42B72C42C3A: 2. Purpose The purpose of this Act is to prevent food from being introduced or delivered into interstate commerce using a market name for meat or poultry...
  • Section HD2DE6F1B4A294A18ADDE6C313C161D15: 3. Labeling of imitation meat and poultry products Section 1 of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601) is amended by adding at the end the following:...
  • Section HDEA68B5742714E33890F1E5E944EC70F: 4. Cell-cultured meat and poultry products Section 1 of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601) (as amended by section 3(a)(1)) is amended— in...

Evidence Chain:

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At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to ensure that consumers can make informed decisions in choosing between meat and poultry products and imitation meat and imitation poultry products, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.

Key Policy Areas

Healthcare, Trade, Government Operations

Primary Purpose

This bill, To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to ensure that consumers can make informed decisions in choosing between meat and poultry products and imitation meat and imitation poultry products, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.

Policy Domains

Healthcare Trade Government Operations

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • health care providers and patients
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health care providers and patients: ,
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • health care providers and patients
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federal implementing agencies: ,
health care providers and patients: ,

Legislative Progress

Introduced
Introduced Committee Passed
Jan 30, 2024

Mr. Alford (for himself, Mr. Williams of Texas, Mr. Davis …

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Healthcare Trade Government Operations
Actor Mappings
"secretary_of_health_and_human_services"
→ Secretary of Health and Human Services

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

2 terms
"imitation poultry" §HD2DE6F1B4A294A18ADDE6C313C161D15

any food that— uses a market name, descriptors, or iconography for, or is otherwise represented as, poultry or poultry product, but does not contain any poultry or poultry product

"cell-cultured poultry product" §HDEA68B5742714E33890F1E5E944EC70F

any product capable of use as human food that— is made wholly or in part from any cell culture or the DNA of a live bird

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