[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1447 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1447

 To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to require the Secretary of 
 Agriculture to make decisions relating to proposed amendments to milk 
  marketing orders not later than 90 days after the date on which the 
                       Secretary holds a hearing.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 22, 2007

   Mr. Kohl 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 require the Secretary of 
 Agriculture to make decisions relating to proposed amendments to milk 
  marketing orders not later than 90 days after the date on which the 
                       Secretary holds a hearing.

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

SECTION 1. DEADLINE FOR AMENDMENT DECISIONS FOR MILK MARKETING ORDERS.

    Section 8c(17) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 
608c(17)), reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing 
Agreement Act of 1937, is amended--
            (1) by designating the first sentence as subparagraph (A); 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) Deadline for amendment decisions.--The 
                Secretary shall issue a decision relating to any 
                proposed amendment to a milk marketing order for which 
                a hearing is held under this Act not later than 90 days 
                after the date of the hearing.''.
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