[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4923 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4923

To equalize the minimum adjustments to prices for fluid milk under milk 
marketing orders and to require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct 
         a study regarding the solids content of beverage milk.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 9, 1994

    Mr. Barca of Wisconsin introduced the following bill; which was 
                referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To equalize the minimum adjustments to prices for fluid milk under milk 
marketing orders and to require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct 
         a study regarding the solids content of beverage milk.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act shall be known as the ``Dairy Equity Act''.

SEC. 2. EQUALIZATION OF MINIMUM PRICE ADJUSTMENT FOR CLASS I MILK FOR 
              ALL MARKETING AREAS.

    (a) Use of Same Price.--Section 8c(5)(A) of the Agricultural 
Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 608c(5)(A)), reenacted with amendments by the 
Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, is amended--
            (1) in the third sentence--
                    (A) by striking ``Throughout'' and all that follows 
                through ``order involved), the'' and inserting ``The''; 
                and
                    (B) by striking ``on the date'' and all that 
                follows through the end of the table in that sentence 
                and inserting ``shall be the same for each marketing 
                area subject to an order and shall be $1.80 per 
                hundredweight of milk having 3.5 percent milkfat, with 
                a transportation surcharge determined by the Secretary 
                to compensate handlers for the actual cost of moving 
                milk within and between orders.''; and
            (2) by striking the fourth sentence.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect on the first day of the first month beginning more than 120 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act.

SEC. 3. STUDY OF SOLIDS CONTENT OF BEVERAGE MILK.

    (a) Finding.--Congress finds that current standards for milk solids 
not fat contained in class I milk for fluid use produced in geographic 
areas covered by milk marketing orders issued pursuant to section 8c of 
the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 608c), reenacted with 
amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, are 
below the average levels of milk solids not fat contained in 
unprocessed fluid milk that is produced on farms of producers.
    (b) Study.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall--
            (1) study the desirability and effects of fortifying class 
        I fluid milk described in subsection (a) with additional nonfat 
        solids, including consumer acceptance of fortifying the milk; 
        and
            (2) report the results of the study to the Committee on 
        Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
        on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate.
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