[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2565 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2565

 To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to convert the dairy forward 
     pricing program into a permanent program of the Department of 
                              Agriculture.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                June 23 (legislative day, June 22), 2004

   Mr. Crapo (for himself, Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. Lugar, Mr. Smith, Mr. 
Wyden, Mr. Craig, and Mr. Roberts) 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 amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to convert the dairy forward 
     pricing program into a permanent program of the Department of 
                              Agriculture.

    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 ``Milk Price Forward Contracting 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PERMANENT DAIRY FORWARD PRICING PROGRAM.

    Section 23 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 627), 
reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act 
of 1937, is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``pilot'';
            (2) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in the subsection heading, by striking 
                ``Pilot''; and
                    (B) by striking ``Not later than'' and all that 
                follows through ``temporary pilot program'' and 
                inserting ``The Secretary of Agriculture shall conduct, 
                as a permanent program of the Department of 
                Agriculture, a program'';
            (3) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in the subsection heading, by striking 
                ``pilot''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (1), by striking ``pilot''; and
            (4) by striking subsections (d) and (e).
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