Will support legislation that clarifies states and localities cannot impose unreasonable livestock production standards on producers across the country.

I am also pleased to see that this legislation fixes California’s left-wing Proposition 12 by clarifying that states and localities cannot impose unreasonable livestock production standards on producers across the country.

Womack endorsed a provision limiting state and local livestock production standards.

Womack Supports Certainty and Commonsense Solutions for American Farmers | U.S. Congressman Steve Womack
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House-passed H.R.2 included Subtitle G, Protecting Interstate Commerce. Section 11701 said a state or locality shall not impose a standard or condition on production or manufacture of an agricultural product sold in interstate commerce when production occurs in another state and the added standard exceeds federal and producing-state/local requirements.

The House-passed farm bill contained language matching the commitment: federal clarification limiting state and local production standards on out-of-state agricultural products sold in interstate commerce.

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H.R.2 - Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, Engrossed in House
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Roll Call 284 was On Passage of H.R.2, Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018. The vote status was Passed, 213 yea to 211 nay. The vote list records Womack, Republican, Arkansas, as Yea.

Steve Womack voted for the House bill that included the interstate-commerce agricultural production-standard preemption language.

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Office of the Clerk, U.S. House Roll Call 284, H.R.2
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The enrolled H.R.2 text’s table of contents lists Sec. 10114, Interstate commerce, under hemp production. Searches for the House-passed language titled Prohibition against interference by State and local governments with production or manufacture of items in other States and its agricultural-product production standard text do not return that provision in the enrolled bill.

The broad House-passed preemption language Womack supported did not survive into the enacted farm bill, so the policy was not fully delivered as law through H.R.2.

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H.R.2 - Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, Enrolled Bill
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Congress.gov summarizes H.R.4417 as restricting state and local governments from imposing certain standards or conditions on preharvest production of agricultural products sold in interstate commerce when production occurs in another state and the added standard exceeds federal and producing-state/local requirements. Latest action: referred to House Agriculture and Judiciary; status Introduced.

A later House bill pursued the same policy but remained introduced in the 118th Congress; this shows the issue remained unresolved federally after Womack’s 2018 vote.

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H.R.4417 - Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression Act
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Congress.gov says S.1326 restricts state and local governments from imposing certain standards or conditions on preharvest production of agricultural products in another state. Latest action: read twice and referred to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; status Introduced.

In the current Congress, similar legislation exists only as an introduced Senate bill in the official record found; it has not become law as of the refresh date.

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S.1326 - Food Security and Farm Protection Act
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