[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2270 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2270

 To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to extend the country 
of origin labeling requirements of such Act to additional agricultural 
commodities, to provide for the implementation of such requirements to 
          certain covered commodities, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 22, 2003

Mr. Thornberry introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to extend the country 
of origin labeling requirements of such Act to additional agricultural 
commodities, to provide for the implementation of such requirements to 
          certain covered commodities, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Farm Commodity Fair Labeling Act of 
2003''.

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL COVERED COMMODITIES FOR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABELING.

    (a) Inclusion of Poultry and Goats.--Section 281 of the 
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1638) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)(A)--
                    (A) by redesignating clauses (iii), (iv), (v), and 
                (vi) as clauses (v), (vi), (vii), and (viii), 
                respectively; and
                    (B) by inserting after clause (ii) the following 
                new clauses:
                            ``(iii) poultry products;
                            ``(iv) muscle cuts and ground meat produced 
                        from goats.'';
            (2) by redesignating paragraphs (8) and (9) as paragraphs 
        (9) and (10), respectively; and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (7) the following new 
        paragraph:
            ``(8) Poultry product.--The term `poultry product' means 
        the carcass of a chicken or turkey, or any part thereof, or a 
        product that is made wholly or in part from the carcass of a 
        chicken or turkey, or any part thereof.''.
    (b) Designation of United States as Country of Origin.--Section 
282(a)(2)(B) of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 
1638a(a)(2)(B)) is amended by striking ``and pork'' and inserting ``, 
pork, goats, and poultry products''.
    (c) Applicability.--Subtitle D of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 
1946, as amended by subsection (a), shall apply to the retail sale of 
covered commodities produced from goats, chickens, or turkeys beginning 
on the later of the following:
            (1) September 30, 2004.
            (2) 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.

SEC. 3. APPLICABILITY OF COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABELING REQUIREMENTS TO 
              COVERED COMMODITIES DERIVED FROM ANIMALS.

    Section 285 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 
1638d) is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: 
``However, section 282(a)(1) does not apply to the retailer of a 
covered commodity that is derived in whole or in part from an animal 
born before October 1, 2004, or likely born before that date, but whose 
birthdate is not readily verifiable.''.
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