Agriculture; Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry; livestock; RFID tags; compacts; preemption; effective date.

Summary

The bill stops the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry from requiring RFID identification tags on livestock for disease tracing as required by USDA rules. It also orders the department to work with other beef‑producing states to create compacts that permit the sale of animals without RFID tags, and it prevents any state law from blocking those compacts. The act becomes effective on November 1, 2026.

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