A bill to amend the Agriculture Marketing Act of 1946 to foster efficient markets and increase competition and transparency among packers that purchase livestock from producers.

3.0.0 460 2019-11-15T21:44:28Z 2019-11-15T21:44:28Z Senate S S 2009-02-24 111 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2009-02-24T21:02:51Z 2009-02-24 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2009-02-24 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress G000386 Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] Charles Grassley R IA E. N F000061 Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI] RUSSELL FEINGOLD D WI D. 2009-02-24 True Agriculture and Food Agricultural marketing and promotion Livestock Meat Agriculture and Food

00 2009-02-24 Introduced in Senate 2009-03-09T18:54:41Z Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require that 25% of a covered packer's daily kill comes through spot market sales from nonaffiliated producers.

Sets forth a different percentage for covered packers who reported in the 2008 annual report that more than 75% of their livestock were captive supply livestock

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A bill to amend the Agriculture Marketing Act of 1946 to foster efficient markets and increase competition and transparency among packers that purchase livestock from producers. Display Title A bill to amend the Agriculture Marketing Act of 1946 to foster efficient markets and increase competition and transparency among packers that purchase livestock from producers. Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Agriculture Marketing Act of 1946 to foster efficient markets and increase competition and transparency among packers that purchase livestock from producers. Introduced in Senate 2009-02-24T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s460is/xml/BILLS-111s460is.xml 2009-02-24 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.