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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 581 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 with respect to mandatory |
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| 6 | 6 | | reporting of dairy products processing costs. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY13, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mrs. G |
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| 10 | 10 | | ILLIBRAND(for herself, Ms. COLLINS, and Mrs. SHAHEEN) introduced |
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| 11 | 11 | | the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee |
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| 12 | 12 | | on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 with re- |
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| 15 | 15 | | spect to mandatory reporting of dairy products proc- |
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| 16 | 16 | | essing costs. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Fair Milk Pricing for 4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Farmers Act’’. 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEC. 2. MANDATORY REPORTING OF DAIRY PRODUCTS 6 |
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| 23 | 23 | | PROCESSING COSTS. 7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Section 273 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 8 |
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| 25 | 25 | | 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1637b) is amended— 9 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •S 581 IS |
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| 29 | 29 | | (1) in subsection (b)— 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (A) in paragraph (1)— 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (i) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by strik-3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ing ‘‘and’’ at the end; 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | and’’; and 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (iii) by adding at the end the fol-8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | lowing: 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ‘‘(C) for each manufacturer required to re-10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | port under subparagraph (A) for any product, 11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | require that manufacturer to report production 12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | cost and product yield information, as deter-13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | mined by the Secretary, for all products proc-14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | essed in the same facility or facilities.’’; and 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (B) in paragraph (2)(A), by inserting 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | ‘‘products and’’ after ‘‘those’’; and 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (2) in subsection (d)— 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (A) in the subsection heading, by striking 19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | ‘‘E |
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| 49 | 49 | | LECTRONICREPORTING’’ and inserting ‘‘RE-20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | PORTING’’; 21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (B) in paragraph (1)— 22 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (i) in the paragraph heading, by strik-23 |
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| 53 | 53 | | ing ‘‘E |
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| 54 | 54 | | LECTRONIC REPORTING ’’ and insert-24 |
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| 55 | 55 | | ing ‘‘R |
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| 56 | 56 | | EPORTING’’; and 25 |
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| 59 | 59 | | •S 581 IS |
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| 60 | 60 | | (ii) by striking ‘‘this section’’ and in-1 |
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| 61 | 61 | | serting ‘‘subparagraphs (A) and (B) of 2 |
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| 62 | 62 | | subsection (b)(1)’’; 3 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (C) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘this sec-4 |
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| 64 | 64 | | tion’’ and inserting ‘‘subparagraphs (A) and 5 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (B) of subsection (b)(1)’’; and 6 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (D) by adding at the end the following: 7 |
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| 67 | 67 | | ‘‘(3) D |
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| 68 | 68 | | AIRY PRODUCTS PROCESSING COSTS .— 8 |
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| 69 | 69 | | Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment 9 |
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| 70 | 70 | | of this paragraph, and every 2 years thereafter, the 10 |
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| 71 | 71 | | Secretary shall publish a report containing the infor-11 |
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| 72 | 72 | | mation obtained under subsection (b)(1)(C).’’. 12 |
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