New Hampshire · 2025 Regular Session · Resolution

HR 18: urging the New Hampshire congressional delegation to sponsor legislation relative to, and urging the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to adopt regulations, allowing for small scale and very small slaughter plants to use the Federal Meat Inspection Act’s Custom Exempt meat processing inspection criteria with a third-party inspector present at slaughter, so that processed beef, pork, lamb, and chevron (goat meat) can be sold as individual cuts directly from the farm producer to the end consumer.

Passed one chamber Last action March 26, 2025: Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-1073h: MA VV 03/26/2025 HJ 10 P. 29

Plain-language summary

HR 18 is a resolution introduced in the New Hampshire House on March 12, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: urging the New Hampshire congressional delegation to sponsor legislation relative to, and urging the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to adopt regulations, allowing for small scale and very small slaughter plants to use the Federal Meat Inspection Act’s Custom Exempt meat processing inspection criteria with a third-party inspector present at slaughter, so that processed beef, pork, lamb, and chevron (goat meat) can be sold as individual cuts directly from the farm producer to the end consumer. Primary sponsor: Judy Aron (Republican). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (March 26, 2025): Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-1073h: MA VV 03/26/2025 HJ 10 P. 29.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor: Judy Aron (Republican). 1 co-sponsor.