[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2735 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2735

 To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to exempt actions undertaken 
    to administer a marketing order issued under such Act from the 
                            antitrust laws.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 24, 1997

   Mr. Dooley of California introduced the following bill; which was 
  referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the 
Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to exempt actions undertaken 
    to administer a marketing order issued under such Act from the 
                            antitrust laws.

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

SECTION 1. EXEMPTION FROM ANTITRUST LAWS FOR AGRICULTURE MARKETING 
              ORDERS.

    Section 10 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 610), 
reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act 
of 1937, is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(k) No action, regulation, decision, determination, or other act 
or omission of any individual acting on behalf of, or under the 
authority of, the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to an 
agricultural marketing order or agreement issued under the authority of 
section 8c or another provision of law shall be construed to be within 
the prohibitions of the antitrust laws of the United States.''.
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