[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 955 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 955

      To amend the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
   Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003, to 
 reinstate the requirement that a farm, in order to be certified as an 
 organic farm with respect to livestock produced on the farm, feed the 
               livestock with organically produced feed.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 27, 2003

Mr. Farr (for himself, Mr. Kind, Mr. Sherwood, Ms. Woolsey, Ms. Eshoo, 
  Mr. Honda, Mr. Olver, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Price of North Carolina, Ms. 
 Lee, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Thompson of California, Mrs. Capps, Mr. Filner, 
 Mr. George Miller of California, Mr. Udall of Colorado, Mr. Udall of 
   New Mexico, Ms. Loretta Sanchez of California, Mr. Delahunt, Ms. 
 Baldwin, Mr. Nethercutt, Mr. Kucinich, Mr. Hinchey, and Mr. Boehlert) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                              Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
      To amend the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
   Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003, to 
 reinstate the requirement that a farm, in order to be certified as an 
 organic farm with respect to livestock produced on the farm, feed the 
               livestock with organically produced feed.

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

SECTION 1. USE OF ORGANICALLY PRODUCED FEED FOR CERTIFICATION AS 
              ORGANIC FARM.

    Section 771 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003 (division 
A of the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003; Public Law 108-
7), is repealed.
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