[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 169 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 169


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 11, 1999

                                Received

                           February 22, 1999

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
                                Forestry

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                                 AN ACT


 
  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 (7 U.S.C. 229a), 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 in both paragraphs (1) and (2)--
            (1) by striking ``beef, or'' and inserting ``beef,''; and
            (2) by inserting after ``lamb,'' the following: ``or 
        domestic or imported swine for immediate slaughter and fresh 
        muscle cuts of swine,''.
    (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.''.

            Passed the House of Representatives February 9, 1999.

            Attest:

                                                 JEFF TRANDAHL,

                                                                 Clerk.