[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1475 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R.1475 

  To eliminate the National Sheep Industry Improvement Center and to 
  transfer funds available for the Center to the general fund of the 
                    Treasury to reduce the deficit.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 29, 1997

  Mr. Chabot introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To eliminate the National Sheep Industry Improvement Center and to 
  transfer funds available for the Center to the general fund of the 
                    Treasury to reduce the deficit.

    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 ``Anti-Fleecing of America Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF NATIONAL SHEEP INDUSTRY IMPROVEMENT CENTER.

    (a) Elimination.--Section 375 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act (7 U.S.C. 2008j), establishing the National Sheep 
Industry Improvement Center, is repealed.
    (b) Treatment of Center Funds.--Amounts in the National Sheep 
Industry Improvement Center Revolving Fund of the Treasury, as 
established by subsection (e) of section 375 of the Consolidated Farm 
and Rural Development Act, which were deposited in the Fund before the 
repeal of such section, are hereby transferred to the general fund of 
the Treasury for the purpose of reducing the deficit. Any amounts that 
would be deposited in the Fund after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, but for the repeal of such section, shall be deposited in the 
general fund of the Treasury.
    (c) Completion of Center Activities.--The Secretary of Agriculture 
shall administer any loan or grant made by the National Sheep Industry 
Improvement Center before the date of the enactment of this Act and 
still outstanding on that date.
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