This Act may be cited as the “Coronavirus Regulatory Repeal Act of 2020”.

Any regulation waived or modified during the emergency period shall be repealed or modified, as applicable, the day after the expiration of the emergency period and thereafter, unless a Federal Regulatory Review Commission recommends the regulation should not be repealed or modified, as applicable, and a law is enacted confirming the recommendation.

(a) Establishment.—There are established Commissions to be known as the “Federal Regulatory Review Commissions”.

(b) Members.—Each Commission shall be composed of members of the congressional committee of each jurisdiction and the head of each agency under the jurisdiction of that committee (in this Act referred to as the “members”).

(c) Information.—Members may obtain information from individuals with expertise in the operations and regulations of government programs.

(d) Duties of the Commissions.—

(1) REVIEW OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS.—Not later than 2 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, each Commission shall submit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the majority leader of the Senate an official recommendation, on the repeal or modification of each regulation waived or modified during the emergency period. Each regulation waived or modified during the emergency period shall remain waived or modified, as applicable, during the review period by the Commission.

(2) EXTENSION.—The deadline in paragraph (1) may be extended for an additional month if the Congress enacts legislation extending such deadline by a vote of a majority of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

(e) Report to Congress.—

(1) AGENCY REPORT ON REGULATIONS.—Not later than 1 month after the date of the enactment of this Act, the head of each agency shall submit to each congressional committee of jurisdiction a report that includes—

(A) an analysis of whether or not the agency can function without the regulation or with the modified regulation, as applicable; and

(B) an analysis of whether the regulation should be restored to its original state before the emergency period or should remain repealed or modified, as applicable.

(2) PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD REQUIRED.—The head of an agency shall provide a public comment period before submitting a report pursuant to paragraph (1).

(f) Congressional recommendation.—Not later than 1 month after receiving a report from the head of each agency pursuant to subsection (e), each committee shall submit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the majority leader of the Senate an official recommendation on whether or not the repealed or modified regulation should be re-established.

(g) Sunset of Commissions.—The Commissions established in this section shall terminate on the final day of the final recommendation by each committee.

(a) In general.—Section 23 of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 623) is amended—

(1) by redesignating subsections (b), (c), and (d) as subsections (c), (d), and (e), respectively;

(2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:

“(b) Exemption for slaughter and preparation occurring at custom slaughter facilities.—

“(1) DEFINITION OF STATE.—In this subsection, the term ‘State’ means any State or Territory.

“(2) EXEMPTION.—The provisions of this title requiring inspection of the slaughter of animals and the preparation of the carcasses, parts thereof, meat, and meat food products at establishments conducting those operations for commerce shall not apply to the slaughtering by any person of animals at a custom slaughter facility and the preparation at that custom slaughter facility and transportation in commerce of the carcasses, parts thereof, meat, and meat food products of those animals if—

“(A) the slaughtering and preparation carried out at the custom slaughter facility is carried out in accordance with the law of the State in which the custom slaughter facility is located; and

“(B) the animals are slaughtered and the carcasses, parts thereof, meat, and meat food products of the animals are prepared exclusively for distribution to—

“(i) household consumers within the State in which the custom slaughter facility is located; or

“(ii) restaurants, hotels, boarding houses, grocery stores, or other establishments located in the State in which the custom slaughter facility is located that—

“(I) are involved in the preparation of meals served directly to consumers; or

“(II) offer meat and meat food products for sale directly to consumers in the State.”; and

(3) in subsection (c) (as so redesignated), in the second sentence, by striking “paragraph (b)” and inserting “subsection”.

(b) No preemption of State law.—Nothing in an amendment made by subsection (a) preempts any State law relating to—

(1) the slaughter of animals or the preparation of carcasses, parts thereof, meat, and meat food products at a custom slaughter facility; or

(2) the sale of meat or meat food products.

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