[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3424 Introduced in House (IH)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 3424

  To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 and the Packers and 
     Stockyards Act, 1921, to provide for increased regulation of 
                            slaughterhouses.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 9, 1996

 Mr. Johnson of South Dakota (for himself and Mr. Pomeroy) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 and the Packers and 
     Stockyards Act, 1921, to provide for increased regulation of 
                            slaughterhouses.

    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 may be cited as the ``Competitive Livestock Markets Act of 
1996''.

SEC. 2. PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ACT, 1921.

    Section 202 of the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 (7 U.S.C. 192) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking the period at the end of subdivision (g) 
        and inserting ``; or''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(h) engage in any practice the Secretary by rule, after 
consultation with producers of cattle, lamb, and hogs, and other 
persons in the cattle, lamb, and hog industries, determines is an 
anticompetitive practice relating to the prices and the terms of sale 
for the procurement of livestock and the sale of meat and other 
byproducts of slaughter.''.

SEC. 3. AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACT OF 1946.

    Section 203(g) of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 
1622(g)) is amended by adding at the end ``Each person engaged in the 
business of slaughtering livestock who has greater than 5 percent of 
the national slaughter for a given species shall report to the 
Secretary in such manner as the Secretary shall require, as soon as 
practicable but in any event not later than 24 hours after the 
transaction takes place, such information relating to prices and the 
terms of sale for the procurement of livestock and the sale of meat and 
other byproducts of slaughter as the Secretary determines is necessary 
to carry out this subsection. Whoever knowingly fails or refuses to 
furnish to the Secretary information required to be reported by this 
subsection shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, or 
imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.''.

SEC. 4. REPORTS ON EXPORTED MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS.

    Each person who exports more than 1000 pounds of meat and meat 
products from the United States in a given week shall report such 
exports to the Secretary of Agriculture in such manner and to such 
extent as the Secretary determines necessary, but in any event within 5 
working days after the week ends. The Secretary shall make public the 
aggregate exports of meat products for each week.
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