Wyoming PRIME Act.

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ENROLLED ACT NO. 30,

SENATE

SIXTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2024 Budget Session

AN ACT relating to marketing homemade goods; providing for the sale of homemade meat products as specified; providing a delayed effective date pending certification by the governor based on federal action; providing a definition; authorizing rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.

W.S. 11
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102(a) by creating a new paragraph (xiii) and by renumbering (xiii) as (xiv) and 11
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103(c)(v) by creating a new subparagraph (G) and by creating new subsections (n) and (o) are amended to read:

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102.

Definitions.

(a)

As used in this act:

(xiii)

"Custom slaughter facility" means a slaughter facility that does not have a state or federal inspector on duty and any meat produced from these facilities are not considered state or federally inspected meat products;

(xiii)
(xiv)

"This act" means W.S. 11
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101 through 11
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104.

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103.

Wyoming Food Freedom Act; purpose; exemptions; assumption of risk.

(c)

Transactions under this act shall:

(v)

Not involve the sale of meat products, with the following exceptions:

(G)

The sale of meat products pursuant to subsection (n) of this section and subject to subsection (o) of this section.

(n)

Except as prohibited by federal law and subject to subsection (o) of this section, a producer may sell meat products from cattle, sheep, swine or goats raised by the producer that were slaughtered on the premises of the producer or at a custom slaughter facility, if the following conditions are met:

(i)

The meat products are produced from animals that are raised, slaughtered, processed and sold in Wyoming;

(ii)

The meat products are sold directly to an informed end consumer in Wyoming, whether for consumption on or off the premises;

(iii)

A prominent written warning statement shall be delivered to the informed end consumer at the time of sale, or the warning may be displayed on a label affixed to the meat product packaging. The warning required by this paragraph shall state:

(A)

The meat product has not been inspected and is not regulated;

(B)

An informed end consumer who obtains meat products pursuant to this act agrees not to sell, donate or commercially redistribute the meat;

(C)

Information describing the standards used by the producer with respect to animal health and in the processing of meat from the animal.

(iv)

The producer shall not publish any statement associated with the meat specified in this subsection that implies the Wyoming department of agriculture's approval or endorsement of meat delivered under this subsection.

(o)

Subsection (n) of this section shall be effective on the date that the governor, on advice of the attorney general, certifies to the secretary of state that the sale of meat products from cattle, sheep, swine or goats raised by the producer that were slaughtered on the premises of the producer or at a custom slaughter facility is legalized under federal law. Legalization under federal law shall be either the passage of a federal law to allow direct
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consumer sales of uninspected meat products or the issuance of a final decision by a federal court with jurisdiction over this state that declares that the federal prohibition on direct
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consumer sales is unconstitutional or otherwise invalid. Sales of meat products pursuant to subsection (n) of this section shall be allowed immediately upon the governor's certification to the secretary of state that sales of uninspected meat products have been legalized.

Section 2.

The department of agriculture may promulgate any rules necessary to implement the provisions of this act and producers may sell meat products immediately upon certification by the governor that W.S. 11
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Section 3
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This act is effective July 1, 2024
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(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.

Chief Clerk

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