HB0150 • 2025

Meat processors-composted materials.

AN ACT relating to agriculture, livestock and other animals; authorizing federal and state-licensed meat processors to sell composted material as fertilizer, soil amendment or soil conditioner; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

Agriculture

Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor: Representative Andrew
Last action: 2025-03-03
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide information on what happens if a processor sells compost without registering it, nor does it specify the exact impact on existing laws regarding fertilizer and soil conditioners.

Meat Processors Can Sell Compost

The bill allows federal and state-licensed meat processors to sell compost made from non-edible parts of animals as fertilizer, soil amendment or soil conditioner.

What This Bill Does

Allows federal and state-licensed meat processors to make compost from non-edible animal parts.
Requires these processors to register the compost they sell with the Department of Agriculture.
Specifies that certain risky materials must be excluded from the compost.

Who It Names or Affects

Meat processors who are licensed by the federal government or state.
Farmers and gardeners who buy compost for their land.

Terms To Know

Specified Risk Materials: Certain parts of an animal's body that could contain harmful substances, like the brain or spinal cord.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify what happens if a processor sells compost without registering it.
This bill is inactive in Wyoming and will not be passed during the current session.

Bill History

2025-03-03 House
H:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 5-4
2025-02-07 House
H No report prior to CoW Cutoff
2025-01-28 House
H Introduced and Referred to H05 - Agriculture
2025-01-13 House
H Received for Introduction
2025-01-10 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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25LSO-0516
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0516
Introduced
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0150

Meat processors-composted materials.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Andrew, Banks, Davis, Neiman, Provenza, Strock and Winter and Senator(s) Boner, Ide, Pearson and Steinmetz

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to agriculture, livestock and other animals; authorizing federal and state-licensed meat processors to sell composted material as fertilizer, soil amendment or soil conditioner; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1
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W.S. 11
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119 is created to read:

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Meat processors; sale of composted material as fertilizer, soil amendment or soil conditioner; definitions.

(a)

Meat processors that are licensed federally or by the state shall be permitted to compost nonedible portions of processed animals from their processing plants, excluding specified risk materials, and distribute the composted material as fertilizer, soil amendment or soil conditioner.

(b)

Meat processors that distribute their compost as fertilizer, soil amendment or soil conditioner shall register the fertilizer, soil amendment or soil conditioner with the department of agriculture pursuant to W.S. 11
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104 and follow any other requirements for distributing commercial fertilizer, soil amendment or soil conditioner under W.S. 11
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(c)

As used in this section, "specified risk materials" means:

(i)

The brain, skull, eyes, trigeminal ganglia, spinal cord, vertebral column (excluding the vertebrae of the tail, the transverse processes of the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, and the wings of the sacrum), and dorsal root ganglia from cattle thirty (30) months of age and older; and

(ii)

The distal ileum of the small intestine and the tonsils from all cattle.

Section 2
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W.S. 11
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Definitions.

(a)

As used in this act:

(xxv)

"This act" means W.S. 11
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Section 3.

This act is effective July 1, 2025.

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