[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1583 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1583

 To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend 
 the Milk Income Loss Contract Program through fiscal year 2012 at the 
45 percent payment rate, to establish a minimum price for Class I milk 
      under Federal milk marketing orders, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 20, 2007

 Mrs. Gillibrand introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                      the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend 
 the Milk Income Loss Contract Program through fiscal year 2012 at the 
45 percent payment rate, to establish a minimum price for Class I milk 
      under Federal milk marketing orders, 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 ``American Dairy Farmer Protection 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CONTINUATION OF MILK INCOME LOSS CONTRACT PROGRAM.

    (a) Continuation of Program; Payment Percentage Rate.--Subsection 
(c)(3)(C) of section 1502 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act 
of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 7982) is amended by striking ``0 percent'' and 
inserting ``and ending on September 30, 2012, 45 percent''.
    (b) Maximum Payment Quantity.--Subsection (d)(2) of such section is 
amended by striking ``2,400,000 pounds'' and inserting ``4,800,000 
pounds''.
    (c) Contract Signup and Duration.--Subsections (f) and (g)(1) of 
such section are amended by striking ``September 30, 2007'' and 
inserting ``September 30, 2012''.

SEC. 3. MINIMUM PRICE FOR CLASS I MILK UNDER FEDERAL MILK MARKETING 
              ORDERS.

    (a) Minimum Price.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
effective October 1, 2007, the minimum price for Class I milk under 
each Federal milk marketing order issued under section 8c(5) of the 
Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 608c(5)), reenacted with 
amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, shall 
be $15.58 per hundredweight during fiscal year 2008.
    (b) Inflation Adjustment.--The minimum price for Class I milk to be 
in effect for a fiscal year under subsection (a) (other than fiscal 
year 2008) shall be adjusted by the percent that equals the total 
percentage change that occurred in the Consumer Price Index for all 
urban consumers (all items; U.S. city average) for the 12 month period 
ending June 30 preceding the fiscal year for which the adjustment is 
made. The adjustment made each fiscal year by this subsection shall be 
added on a compounded basis to the sum of all adjustments made each 
fiscal year after fiscal year 2008 under this subsection.
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