I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4673 
To ensure the free movement of livestock-derived products in interstate 
commerce. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 23, 2025 
Mrs. HINSON (for herself, Mr. FEENSTRA, Mr. NUNN of Iowa, Mrs. MILLER- 
MEEKS, Mr. GRAVES, Mr. ROUZER, Mr. MURPHY, Mr. MESSMER, Mr. 
SMITH of Nebraska, Mr. FLOOD, Mr. LAMALFA, Mr. ALFORD, Mr. 
JOHNSON of South Dakota, Mr. BOST, Mr. NEWHOUSE, Mr. HARRIS of 
North Carolina, Mr. FINSTAD, Mr. WIED, and Mr. ROSE) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To ensure the free movement of livestock-derived products 
in interstate commerce. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Save Our Bacon Act’’. 
SEC. 2. ENSURING THE FREE MOVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK- 
DERIVED PRODUCTS IN INTERSTATE COM-
MERCE. 
(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to— 
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(1) protect the free movement in interstate 
commerce of products derived from covered live-
stock; 
(2) encourage a national market of such prod-
ucts; 
(3) ensure that producers of covered livestock 
are not subject to a patchwork of State laws restrict-
ing access to a national market; and 
(4) ensure that the United States continues to 
uphold its international trade obligations. 
(b) IN GENERAL.—Producers of covered livestock 
have a Federal right to raise and market their covered 
livestock in interstate commerce and therefore no State 
or subdivision thereof may enact or enforce, directly or 
indirectly, a condition or standard on the production of 
covered livestock other than for covered livestock phys-
ically raised in such State or subdivision. 
(c) PROTECTING
INTERSTATE
COMMERCE.—Pro-
ducers of covered livestock have a Federal right to raise 
and market their covered livestock in interstate commerce 
and therefore no State or subdivision thereof may enact 
or enforce, directly or indirectly, as a condition for sale 
or consumption, any condition or standard of production 
on products derived from covered livestock not physically 
raised in such State or subdivision that is in addition to, 
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or different from, the conditions or standards of produc-
tion in the State in which the production occurs. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) COVERED LIVESTOCK.—The term ‘‘covered 
livestock’’— 
(A) means any domestic animal raised for 
the purpose of— 
(i) slaughter for human consumption; 
or 
(ii) producing products manufactured 
for human consumption which are derived 
from the processing of milk, including fluid 
milk products; and 
(B) does not include domestic animals 
raised for the primary purpose of egg produc-
tion. 
(2) PRODUCTION.—The term ‘‘production’’— 
(A) means the raising (including breeding) 
of covered livestock; and 
(B) does not include the movement, har-
vesting, or further processing of covered live-
stock. 
Æ 
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