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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 295
To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 with respect to mandatory
reporting of dairy products processing costs.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY9, 2025
Mr. L
ANGWORTHY (for himself, Mr. VANORDEN, Mr. MORELLE, Mr.
F
INSTAD, Ms. TENNEY, Mr. MOOLENAAR, Mr. COSTA, Mr. NEWHOUSE,
and Mr. V
ALADAO) introduced the following bill; which was referred to
the Committee on Agriculture
A BILL
To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 with re-
spect to mandatory reporting of dairy products proc-
essing costs.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Fair Milk Pricing for 4
Farmers Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. MANDATORY REPORTING OF DAIRY PRODUCTS 6
PROCESSING COSTS. 7
Section 273 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 8
1946 (7 U.S.C. 1637b) is amended— 9
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(1) in subsection (b)— 1
(A) in paragraph (1)— 2
(i) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by strik-3
ing ‘‘and’’ at the end; 4
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 5
the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; 6
and’’; and 7
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-8
lowing: 9
‘‘(C) for each manufacturer required to re-10
port under subparagraph (A) for any product, 11
require that manufacturer to report production 12
cost and product yield information, as deter-13
mined by the Secretary, for all products proc-14
essed in the same facility or facilities.’’; and 15
(B) in paragraph (2)(A), by inserting 16
‘‘products and’’ after ‘‘those’’; and 17
(2) in subsection (d)— 18
(A) in the subsection heading, by striking 19
‘‘E
LECTRONICREPORTING’’ and inserting ‘‘RE-20
PORTING’’; 21
(B) in paragraph (1)— 22
(i) in the heading, by striking ‘‘E
LEC-23
TRONICREPORTING’’ and inserting ‘‘RE-24
PORTING’’; and 25
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(ii) by striking ‘‘this section’’ and in-1
serting in its place ‘‘subparagraphs (A) 2
and (B) of subsection (b)(1)’’; 3
(C) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘this sec-4
tion’’ and inserting in its place ‘‘subparagraphs 5
(A) and (B) of subsection (b)(1)’’; and 6
(D) by adding at the end the following: 7
‘‘(3) D
AIRY PRODUCTS PROCESSING COSTS .— 8
Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment 9
of this paragraph, and every 2 years thereafter, the 10
Secretary shall publish a report containing the infor-11
mation obtained under subparagraph (C) of sub-12
section (b)(1).’’. 13
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