HB324 updates Pennsylvania’s Poultry Technician Licensure Law (originally enacted in 1956) to modernize and expand regulation of poultry technicians. It enables any U.S. legal resident to become a Certified Poultry Technician after completing a training course from the state Department of Agriculture, removing previous citizenship and education restrictions. The Secretary of Agriculture is granted broader authority to establish licensing standards and training procedures, which may include offering courses in Spanish. The bill also increases the licensing fee from $5 to $10 and enhances enforcement power, enabling the Secretary to issue quarantine orders or revoke licenses if technicians fail to comply with regulations or are impaired.
The Pennsylvania State House of Representatives passed HB324 on February 3, 2025 by a vote of 161 to 41. We have assigned pluses to the nays because expanding licensure to noncitizens undermines state sovereignty and advances globalist efforts to dilute American culture through mass migration. Instead of streamlining opportunities for citizens to learn on the job, the bill raises fees and centralizes power in a single bureaucrat, granting the Secretary authority to revoke licenses or impose quarantines—an infringement on the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Such measures erode freedom, weaken American sovereignty, and feed into the broader agenda of merging the United States into a North American Union.
