[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 618 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 618

 To prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from using information from 
 the National Cheese Exchange to fix minimum milk prices under Federal 
                         milk marketing orders.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 5, 1997

  Mr. Peterson of Minnesota introduced the following bill; which was 
                referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from using information from 
 the National Cheese Exchange to fix minimum milk prices under Federal 
                         milk marketing orders.

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

SECTION 1. USE OF NATIONAL CHEESE EXCHANGE INFORMATION TO FIX MILK 
              PRICES FOR MILK HANDLERS.

    Section 8(5)(A) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 
608c(5)(A)), reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing 
Agreement Act of 1937, is amended by adding at the end the following 
new sentence: ``Information from the National Cheese Exchange may not 
be used to fix minimum prices for milk of any use classification.''.
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