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California humane slaughter, inspection, enforcement, and state procurement standards
California requires covered commercial slaughter to render listed livestock and poultry insensible to pain before specified handling and killing steps or to use the prescribed ritual method, directs state enforcement, and bars state agencies from procuring products from animals slaughtered outside the chapter's requirements.
Status snapshot
Jurisdiction
California
Item type
statute reference
Latest action
California requires covered commercial slaughter to render listed livestock and poultry insensible to pain before specified handling and killing steps or to use the prescribed ritual method, directs state enforcement, and bars state agencies from procuring products from animals slaughtered outside the chapter's requirements.
Latest action date
Jul 13, 2026
Law summary
California requires covered commercial slaughter to render listed livestock and poultry insensible to pain before specified handling and killing steps or to use the prescribed ritual method, directs state enforcement, and bars state agencies from procuring products from animals slaughtered outside the chapter's requirements.
Why it matters
These provisions create direct humane-slaughter, inspection, enforcement, and public-procurement protections at the end of life.
Key dates
Introduced: Not published
Effective: Not published
Comment deadline: Not published
Election date: Not published
Source last checked: Jul 14, 2026
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