SF0120 • 2025

Wyoming PRIME act.

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

Agriculture

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor: Senator Salazar
Last action: 2025-02-24
Official status: enrolled
Effective date: 7/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The act's effectiveness depends on federal law changes or a court decision declaring federal prohibitions unconstitutional.

Wyoming PRIME Act

The Wyoming PRIME Act allows producers to sell meat products made from animals they raised and slaughtered, but only if federal law changes to permit such sales.

What This Bill Does

Allows producers of meat products produced from cattle, sheep, swine, or goats raised by the producer and slaughtered on the premises or at a custom slaughter facility (where no state or federal inspector is present) to sell the meat products.
Requires that the meat be produced from animals that are raised, slaughtered, processed, and sold in Wyoming.
Requires a prominent written warning statement delivered to the purchaser indicating that the meat has not been inspected by government authorities.
Prohibits producers from stating or implying that their meat is approved or endorsed by the Wyoming Department of Agriculture.

Who It Names or Affects

Farmers who raise and slaughter animals for meat in Wyoming.
People buying homemade meat products directly from producers in Wyoming.

Terms To Know

Custom Slaughter Facility: A place where animals are killed but there is no state or federal inspector present to check the meat.

Limits and Unknowns

The act only becomes effective if federal law changes to permit such sales.
Details on how the state will enforce this new rule are not clear.

Bill History

2025-02-24 LSO
Assigned Chapter Number 43
2025-02-24 Wyoming Legislature
Became Law without Signature
2025-02-20 House
H Speaker Signed SEA No. 0016
2025-02-20 Senate
S President Signed SEA No. 0016
2025-02-20 LSO
Assigned Number SEA No. 0016
2025-02-20 House
H 3rd Reading:Passed 57-4-1-0-0
2025-02-19 House
H 2nd Reading:Passed
2025-02-18 House
H COW:Passed
2025-02-13 House
H Placed on General File
2025-02-13 House
H05 - Agriculture:Recommend Do Pass 8-1-0-0-0
2025-02-10 House
H Introduced and Referred to H05 - Agriculture
2025-02-03 House
H Received for Introduction
2025-02-03 Senate
S 3rd Reading:Passed 31-0-0-0-0
2025-01-31 Senate
S 2nd Reading:Passed
2025-01-30 Senate
S COW:Passed
2025-01-28 Senate
S Placed on General File
2025-01-28 Senate
S05 - Agriculture:Recommend Do Pass 5-0-0-0-0
2025-01-21 Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S05 - Agriculture
2025-01-16 Senate
S Received for Introduction
2025-01-15 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Official Summary Text

Bill Summary - 25LSO-0444

Bill No.:

SF0120

Effective:

7/1/2025

LSO No.:

25LSO-0444

Enrolled Act No.:

SEA No. 0016

Chapter No.:

43

Prime Sponsor:

Salazar

Catch Title:

Wyoming PRIME act.

Has Report:

No

Subject:

Conditionally authorizing the sale of specified meat products in Wyoming.

Summary/Major Elements:

This act authorizes producers of meat products produced from cattle, sheep, swine, and goats raised by the producer and slaughtered on the producer's premises or at a custom slaughter facility (one where a state or federal inspector is not present) to sell the meat products.

The act requires the following conditions before the producer's meat products may be sold:

The meat products must be produced from animals that are raised, slaughtered, processed, and sold in Wyoming.
The meat products must be sold directly to an informed end consumer in Wyoming.
A prominent written warning statement must be delivered to the purchaser; the warning must include that the meat product has not been inspected, the meat product cannot be sold, donated, or redistributed, and information about the animal and the processing must be provided.
The producer cannot publish any statement that implies that the meat product has the approval or endorsement of the Wyoming Department of Agriculture.

This act is only effective if the sale of meat products from meat raised by a producer and slaughtered at a custom facility or on the producer's premises becomes legal under federal law or if the federal prohibition on these sales is declared unconstitutional or legally invalid.

Comments:

This act is effective on July 1, 2025 but is contingent on the Governor certifying to the
Secretary
of State that
the sale of meat products from cattle, sheep, swine, or goats raised by a producer and slaughtered at a custom facility or on the producer's premises is legal under federal law or that the federal prohibition on these sales has been declared unconstitutional or legally invalid.
The above summary is not an official publication of the Wyoming Legislature and is not an official statement of legislative intent.

While the Legislative Service Office endeavored to provide accurate information in this summary, it should not be relied upon as a comprehensive abstract of the bill.

Current Bill Text

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25LSO-0444

ORIGINAL Senate

File No
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SF0120

ENROLLED ACT NO. 16,

SENATE

SIXTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2025 General Session

AN ACT relating to marketing homemade foods; providing for the sale of producer-raised, homemade meat products as specified; providing a delayed effective date pending certification by the governor based on federal action; providing definitions; authorizing rulemaking; 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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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:

11
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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 where any meat produced from the facility is not considered to be 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.

11
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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 under subsection (n) of this section, 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 all of 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 of the producer;

(iii)

A prominent written warning statement is delivered to the informed end consumer at the time of sale, or the warning is 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 under 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 that implies or states 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 constitute either the passage of a federal law that allows 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 under subsection (n) of this section shall be allowed upon the governor's certification to the secretary of state that sales of uninspected meat products have been legalized under federal law.

Section 2.

(a)

Upon certification by the governor that W.S. 11
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103(n), as created by section 1 of this act, is effective:

(i)

The department of agriculture may promulgate any rules necessary to implement this act;

(ii)

Producers may sell meat products immediately upon certification in accordance with W.S. 11
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103(n) and (o), as created by section 1 of this act.

Section 3
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This act is effective July 1, 2025
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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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