Iowa legislation · 91st General Assembly
Iowa SF2276: A BILL FOR An Act providing for the processing and marketing of meat and poultry products, including by prohibiting vertical integration, providing for a health and safety program, and providing for the divestiture of interests in processors by certain retailers, and providing penalties
Status: In committee, February 11, 2026
An Act providing for the processing and marketing of meat and poultry products, including by prohibiting vertical integration, providing for a health and safety program, and providing for the divestiture of interests in processors by certain retailers, and providing penalties.
What the bill says
A bill FOR An Act providing for the processing and marketing of meat and poultry products, including by prohibiting vertical integration, providing for a health and safety program, and providing for the divestiture of interests in processors by certain retailers, and providing penalties.
From the introduced text, February 11, 2026:
A BILL FOR An Act providing for the processing and marketing of meat and poultry products, including by prohibiting vertical integration, providing for a health and safety program, and providing for the divestiture of interests in processors by certain retailers, and providing penalties. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 5885XS (3) da/js S.F. 2276 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 202D.1 Title. This chapter be shall be known and may be cited as the "Retailer-Processor Fairness Act". Sec. 2. NEW SECTION. 202D.2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. a. "Covered good" means a grocery item, including packaged food or unpackaged food. b. "Covered good" does not include motor fuel, prescription drugs, tobacco products, or alcoholic beverages. 2. "Department" means the department of agriculture and land stewardship. 3. "Dominant retailer" means any of the following: a. A person that has annual retail sales of covered goods in an aggregate amount exceeding eighteen billion dollars as adjusted each year by an amount equal to the percentage increase, if any, in the consumer price index for all urban consumers for the last available twelve-month period published in the federal register by the federal department of labor, bureau of labor statistics. b. A person who owns or operates at least one storefront or …