[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3324 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3324

To amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to make it unlawful for 
    a packer to own, feed, or control swine intended for slaughter.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 10, 1999

  Mr. Minge 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 make it unlawful for 
    a packer to own, feed, or control swine intended for slaughter.

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

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON PACKERS OWNING, FEEDING, OR CONTROLLING 
              SWINE.

    (a) In General.--Section 202 of the Packers and Stockyards Act, 
1921 (7 U.S.C. 192), is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (f) and (g) as subsections 
        (g) and (h), respectively;
            (2) by inserting after subsection (e) the following:
    ``(f) Own, feed, or control swine intended for slaughter (for more 
than 14 days prior to slaughter and acting through the packer or a 
person that directly or indirectly controls, or is controlled by or 
under common control with, the packer), except that this subsection 
shall not apply to--
            ``(1) a cooperative association of producers if a majority 
        of the ownership interest in the cooperative association is 
        held by active members of the cooperative association that--
                    ``(A) own, feed, or control swine; and
                    ``(B) provide the swine to the cooperative 
                association for slaughter--
                            ``(i) in facilities controlled by the 
                        cooperative association; or
                            ``(ii) by other persons pursuant to 
                        contracts with the cooperative association; or
            ``(2) a cooperative association of producers if--
                    ``(A) the majority of the swine so intended for 
                slaughter are owned by the cooperative association; and
                    ``(B) the members of the cooperative association 
                are actively engaged in raising 85 percent of the feed 
                grain consumed by such majority of the swine so 
                intended for slaughter; or
            ``(3) a packer that is owned or controlled by swine 
        producers, if during a calendar year the packer slaughters less 
        than 2 percent of the head of the swine slaughtered in the 
        United States; or''; and
            (3) in subsection (h) (as so redesignated), by striking 
        ``or (e)'' and inserting ``(e), or (f)''.
    (b) Effective Date.--
            (1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), the amendments 
        made by subsection (a) take effect on the date of the enactment 
        of this Act.
            (2) Transition rules.--In the case of a packer that on the 
        date of enactment of this Act owns, feeds, or controls swine 
        intended for slaughter in violation of section 202(f) of the 
        Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 (as amended by subsection 
        (a)), the amendments made by subsection (a) apply to the packer 
        beginning on the date that is 2 years after the date of 
        enactment of this Act.
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