Source: Richard Craver, WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 5/27/20


A bipartisan state House bill would provide $25 million in federal CARES Act funding to assist the state’s meat-processing plants with adding production capacity. House Bill 1201 was filed Tuesday and has not been placed in a committee. It is co-sponsored by GOP Reps. Jeffery Elmore of Wilkes County and Julia Howard of Davie County. The impetus behind the bill is that the COVID-19 pandemic “has resulted in serious and substantial impacts on the food supply chain,” in particular on small- to medium-sized livestock producers.

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