House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
LOCAL Foods Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to exempt certain owners of livestock from inspection requirements, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Eugene Vindman D-VAWhere it went
- IntroducedSep 11, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 2, 2025 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5341.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. VINDMAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 149, September 11, 2025, Page H4266):Article I, Section 8, Clause 18Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 11, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 31 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 5341, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/5341
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 25, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 26, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of September 25, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
7 cosponsors — 4 Republicans, 3 Democrats
4 of 7 cosponsors (57%) are from the other party.
James Baird (R-IN), Becca Balint (D-VT), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Michael Cloud (R-TX), Mike Kennedy (R-UT), Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Eugene Vindman.
- H.R. 10297 (119th) El Salvador TPS Act of 2026
- H.R. 5415 (119th) Nitazene Control Act of 2025
- H.R. 3743 (119th) Supporting Healthy Mothers and Infants Act of 2025
- H.R. 5614 (119th) If You See It, Squish It Act of 2025
- H.R. 8667 (119th) MISSION Rx Act
- H.R. 1973 (119th) No Pay for Congress During Default or Shutdown Act
Related bills
- S. 1212 (119th) LOCAL Foods Act of 2025Identical bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 26, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.