[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1277 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1277

To equalize the minimum adjustments to prices for fluid milk under milk 
marketing orders, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to study the 
        solids content of beverage milk, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                July 22 (legislative day, June 30), 1993

Mr. Durenberger (for himself, Mr. Feingold, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Daschle, Mr. 
Pressler, Mr. Dorgan, and Mr. Wellstone) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 
                        Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
To equalize the minimum adjustments to prices for fluid milk under milk 
marketing orders, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to study the 
        solids content of beverage milk, and for other purposes.

    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) of the Agricultural 
Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing 
Agreement Act of 1937 (7 U.S.C. 608c(5)), is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (A)--
                    (A) in the third sentence--
                            (i) by striking ``Throughout'' and all that 
                        follows through ``order involved), the'' and 
                        inserting ``The''; and
                            (ii) 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
                    (B) 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 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, reenacted with amendments by the 
Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 (7 U.S.C. 608c), 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 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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