[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2221 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2221

 To continue for 2000 the Department of Agriculture program to provide 
                emergency assistance to dairy producers.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 8, 2000

 Mr. Kohl (for himself, Mr. Feingold, Mr. Wellstone, Mr. Schumer, and 
 Mr. Santorum) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
 To continue for 2000 the Department of Agriculture program to provide 
                emergency assistance to dairy producers.

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

SECTION 1. ASSISTANCE TO DAIRY PRODUCERS FOR ECONOMIC LOSSES INCURRED 
              DURING 2000.

    The Secretary of Agriculture shall use $500,000,000 of funds of the 
Commodity Credit Corporation to provide assistance directly to dairy 
producers to compensate the producers for economic losses incurred 
during 2000. The Secretary shall make the assistance available in the 
same manner as the Secretary provided such assistance to dairy 
producers under section 805 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food 
and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 
(7 U.S.C. 1421 note; Public Law 106-78).
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