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1 STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2 1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
3 HOUSE BILL 1238 By: Humphrey
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6 AS INTRODUCED
7 An Act relating to agriculture; directing the
Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry
8 to not require livestock to have certain tags;
directing the Department to plan compacts with other
9 states to allow the sale of livestock without certain
tags; providing for ratification compacts; providing
10 for codification; and providing an effective date.
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13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
14 SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
15 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 2101 of Title 2, unless there is
16 created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
17 A. The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry
18 shall not require livestock to be tagged with radio frequency
19 identification (RFID) devices for animal disease traceability as
20 required by the United States Department of Agriculture pursuant to
21 9 C.F.R., Section 86.4.
22 B. The Department shall contact other livestock-regulating
23 state agencies in beef-producing states to plan compacts between
24 those states and Oklahoma which would allow the sale of livestock
1 without RFID tags with those states. Such proposed compacts shall
2 be provided to the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives
3 and the President Pro Tempore of the Oklahoma State Senate, who then
4 shall take appropriate actions to ratify the compacts.
5 SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
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7 60-1-10776 JL 01/11/25
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