HF 2734: Providing for the processing and marketing of meat and poultry products, including by prohibiting vertical integration, providing for a health and safety program, and providing for the divestiture of interests in processors by certain retailers, and providing penalties

What it does

GENERAL. This bill creates new Code chapter 202D, providing for the processing and marketing of meat and poultry products. The new Code chapter is divided into subchapter I, which includes general provisions including definitions, subchapter II, which prohibits certain retailers of food items from engaging in vertical integration, and subchapter III, which provides a health and safety program for participating processors. FINDINGS AND DECLARATION. The bill finds that concentration in the meat industry has materially impaired competition, eroding the bargaining power of Iowa farmers, independent processors, and workers, while foreclosing market access through captive supply arrangements, vertical integration, and dominant retailer ownership of meat processing facilities.

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For: Iowa Chapter of Sierra Club

In plain words

1. March 9, 2026Filed in the House and sent to the Agriculture committee