[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 531 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 531

 To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to exempt certain identified 
       varieties of tomatoes from agricultural marketing orders.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 4, 2005

  Mr. Santorum (for himself and Mr. Specter) 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 exempt certain identified 
       varieties of tomatoes from agricultural marketing orders.

    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 ``Agricultural Marketing Success Act 
of 2005'' or the ``AMS Act''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN IDENTIFIED VARIETIES OF TOMATOES FROM 
              AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ORDERS.

    Section 8c(2) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 
608c(2)), reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing 
Agreement Act of 1937, is amended by adding at the end the following: 
``No order issued pursuant to this section shall be applicable to 
identified varieties of tomatoes produced in the State of Florida under 
an identity preservation and biotechnology verification program 
administered by the Secretary.''.
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