3.0.0 1645 2023-01-11T13:18:08Z 2023-01-11T13:18:08Z Senate S S 2009-08-06 111 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2009-08-07T00:28:01Z Federal Milk Marketing Improvement Act of 2009 111 889 S 2009-04-23 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Related bill CRS 2009-08-06 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2009-08-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S000709 Sen. Specter, Arlen [D-PA] ARLEN SPECTER D PA N C001070 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Bob Casey D PA 2010-05-11 False Agriculture and Food Agricultural marketing and promotion Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit Food industry and services Agriculture and Food 00 2009-08-06 Introduced in Senate 2009-11-16T19:54:21Z Federal Milk Marketing Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to base the minimum Class II milk price on the average production cost of producing all milk in the 48 contiguous states.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) announce the minimum price for Class II milk by November 1 of each year, with specified price adjustment dates; (2) use the Class II milk price as the basic formula price for all federal and state milk marketing orders and all unregulated milk production areas; and (3) estimate annual milk production and domestic consumption.

States that the price of Class I (fluid) milk price in all federal and state milk marketing orders and all unregulated milk production areas shall be equal to the basic formula price plus the applicable Class I differential under federal and state milk marketing orders.

Authorizes the Secretary, upon a determination of a positive dairy trade balance and excess production, to provide for a producer price reduction of not more than 5% of all milk produced in the 48 contiguous states and marketed by producers for commercial use.

Prohibits imposition of producer charges for the cost of hauling milk or the conversion of raw milk to manufactured products.

Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) milk inventory management; and (2) milk handler responsibilities.

States that in the case of a federal milk order, disapproval of an amendment to the order shall not be considered disapproval of the order or of other terms of the order.

]]> Federal Milk Marketing Improvement Act of 2009 Display Title Federal Milk Marketing Improvement Act of 2009 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to determine the price of all milk used for manufactured purposes, which shall be classified as Class II milk, by using the national average cost of production, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Federal Milk Marketing Improvement Act of 2009 Introduced in Senate 2009-08-06T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s1645is/xml/BILLS-111s1645is.xml 2009-08-06 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.