[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 224 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 224

To amend the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 to require that 
 members of the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board be elected 
     by milk producers and to prohibit bloc voting by cooperative 
 associations of milk producers in the election of the producers, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 12 (legislative day, January 10), 1995

Mr. Kohl (for himself and Mr. Feingold) 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 amend the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 to require that 
 members of the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board be elected 
     by milk producers and to prohibit bloc voting by cooperative 
 associations of milk producers in the election of the producers, 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 may be cited as the ``National Dairy Promotion Reform Act 
of 1995''.

SEC. 2. DAIRY VOTING REFORM.

    Section 113(b) of the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 (7 
U.S.C. 4504(b)) is amended--
            (1) by designating the first and second sentences as 
        paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively;
            (2) by designating the third through fifth sentences as 
        paragraph (3);
            (3) by designating the sixth sentence as paragraph (4);
            (4) by designating the seventh and eighth sentences as 
        paragraph (5);
            (5) by designating the ninth sentence as paragraph (6);
            (6) in paragraph (1) (as so designated), by striking ``and 
        appointment'';
            (7) by striking paragraph (2) (as so designated) and 
        inserting the following new paragraph:
    ``(2)(A)(i) Subject to clause (ii), members of the Board shall be 
milk producers nominated in accordance with subparagraph (B) and 
elected by a vote of producers through a process established by the 
Secretary.
    ``(ii) In carrying out clause (i), the Secretary shall not permit 
an organization certified under section 114 to vote on behalf of the 
members of the organization.
    ``(B) Nominations shall be submitted by organizations certified 
under section 114, or, if the Secretary determines that a substantial 
number of milk producers are not members of, or the interests of the 
producers are not represented by, a certified organization, from 
nominations submitted by the producers in the manner authorized by the 
Secretary. In submitting nominations, each certified organization shall 
demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the milk 
producers who are members of the organization have been fully consulted 
in the nomination process.'';
            (8) in the first sentence of paragraph (3) (as so 
        designated), by striking ``In making such appointments,'' and 
        inserting ``In establishing the process for the election of 
        members of the Board,''; and
            (9) in paragraph (4) (as so designated)--
                    (A) by striking ``appointment'' and inserting 
                ``election''; and
                    (B) by striking ``appointments'' and inserting 
                ``elections''.
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