[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 169 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 169

  To amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to expand the pilot 
 investigation for the collection of information regarding prices paid 
  for the procurement of cattle and sheep for slaughter and of muscle 
    cuts of beef and lamb to include swine and muscle cuts of swine.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 6, 1999

   Mr. Latham (for himself, Mr. Leach, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Gutknecht, Mr. 
 Thune, and Mr. Hill of Montana) introduced the following bill; which 
              was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to expand the pilot 
 investigation for the collection of information regarding prices paid 
  for the procurement of cattle and sheep for slaughter and of muscle 
    cuts of beef and lamb to include swine and muscle cuts of swine.

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

SECTION 1. EXPANSION OF MANDATORY DOMESTIC REPORTING PILOT 
              INVESTIGATION UNDER THE PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ACT, 1921.

    (a) Inclusion of Swine; Reference to Forward Contracting.--Section 
416 of the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 (as added by section 1127 
of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999, as contained in section 
101(a) of division A of Public Law 105-277), is amended--
            (1) in both paragraphs (1) and (2)--
                    (A) by striking ``beef, or'' and inserting 
                ``beef,''; and
                    (B) by inserting after ``lamb,'' the following: 
                ``or domestic or imported swine for immediate slaughter 
                and fresh muscle cuts of swine,''; and
            (2) in paragraph (1), by inserting before the period at the 
        end the following: ``, including procurement of these items 
        using transactions known as forward-contracting''.
    (b) Technical Corrections.--Such section is further amended by 
redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) as subsections (a), (b), and 
(c), respectively.
    (c) Duration of Swine Pilot Investigation.--Such section is further 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(d) Possible Extension of Pilot Investigation.--If the pilot 
investigation required by this section is implemented before the date 
on which the pilot investigation is expanded to include swine, the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall continue the pilot investigation beyond 
the 12-month period referred to in subsection (a) so that price 
information regarding the procurement of domestic or imported swine for 
immediate slaughter and fresh muscle cuts of swine is collected under 
the pilot investigation for 12 months.''.
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