What it does.
The DIRECT Act lets Kansas state-inspected meat and poultry processors fill online customer orders that cross state lines. Today, state-inspected product is stuck in intrastate commerce, which blocks small Kansas processors from selling online to customers across the Missouri or Oklahoma line. The bill opens the consumer e-commerce channel with retail quantity caps (up to 300 lb of beef, 100 lb of pork, 27.5 lb of lamb per transaction).
Doc introduced S. 3099 on November 4, 2025 as the lead Senate sponsor, with Sens. Hyde-Smith and Tuberville joining as cosponsors. The bill is in the Senate Agriculture Committee. It does not lower food-safety standards: state inspection programs already operate to USDA-equivalent standards by federal law. It is a direct-to-consumer e-commerce fix, not a general authorization for wholesale interstate movement of state-inspected meat.
Doc has cited Medicine Lodge Meat Co. in Barber County as a Kansas processor that fits the use case: a state-inspected operation that wants to fill online retail orders from out-of-state customers.
Kansas has a strong network of state-inspected meat processors that can sell inside Kansas but cannot fulfill online retail orders that cross state lines. The DIRECT Act opens that channel without changing inspection standards.