AB 251 Nevada Assembly · 2025 Regular Session

Revises provisions relating to the inspection of meat and poultry. (BDR 51-154)

AB 251 revises Nevada's meat and poultry inspection rules to include mobile processing units (like mobile slaughter trucks) as "official establishments" under state law. This means mobile units must now follow the same inspection, licensing, and operational requirements as fixed facilities, including annual inspections, sanitation standards, and recordkeeping. The bill removes the separate licensing process previously required for mobile units since they are now treated identically to traditional processing facilities. These changes apply to all mobile units operating in Nevada for slaughtering or processing livestock/poultry on farms or approved locations.

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Jun 2025

Assembly Passage

May 2025

Senate Passage

Jun 2025

Signed into Law

Jun 2025

Introduced Feb 18, 2025 Signed Jun 9, 2025

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Reprint 2 → As Enrolled · 4 edits · Jun 9, 2025

MODERATE

This bill updates the definitions for meat and poultry processing facilities in Nevada to allow mobile units to operate as official establishments for interstate commerce and to permit both fixed and mobile facilities to sell meat for intrastate sale. The changes modernize the law by removing the requirement that custom processing facilities must be fixed in one location and clarifying the commercial scope for mobile units.

Scope change

The bill expands the scope of eligible facilities to include mobile units operating across state lines and allows licensed facilities to sell meat within Nevada for the first time.

DEFINITION

The definition of 'custom processing establishment' was updated to remove the requirement that the facility must be fixed in one location, allowing mobile facilities to qualify.

The definition of 'mobile processing unit' was revised to explicitly authorize these units to operate as official establishments for interstate commerce and to slaughter animals for intrastate sale.

ELIGIBILITY

Mobile processing units are now eligible to perform custom processing and slaughter for hire on a commercial basis at farms or locations approved by the State Quarantine Officer.

Licensed custom processing establishments and mobile units are now authorized to slaughter animals on a commercial basis for sale within the state (intrastate commerce).

Floor votes · Senate Jun 2, 2025 · Assembly May 27, 2025

How they voted

20–0

Passed

Total votes 20

Jun 2, 2025

D Democratic12

12 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican8

8 Yea

100% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

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Committee

Jun 9, 2025

Signed into law

Approved by the Governor. Chapter 416.

executive

Jun 2, 2025

Upper · Passed

Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 981.) Reprinting dispensed with. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To printer. From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly. In Assembly. Senate Amendment No. 981 concurred in. To enrollment.

upper

Jun 1, 2025

Upper · Passed

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.

upper

May 27, 2025

Assembly · Passed

Assembly Vote: pass (40-0)

assembly

May 27, 2025

Lower · Passed

From committee: Do pass, as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.

lower

Apr 23, 2025

Lower · Passed

From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.

lower

Apr 21, 2025

Lower · Passed

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 85.) Taken from General File. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. To printer.

lower

Feb 19, 2025

Lower · Passed

From printer. To committee.

lower

2 primary · 0 co-sponsors