[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 536 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 536

   To amend the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 to prohibit the 
labeling of cloned livestock and products derived from cloned livestock 
                              as organic.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 8, 2007

  Mr. Kohl (for himself and Mr. Leahy) 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 Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 to prohibit the 
labeling of cloned livestock and products derived from cloned livestock 
                              as organic.

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

SECTION 1. DEFINITION OF CLONED LIVESTOCK.

    Section 2103 of the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 
6502) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (6) through (21) as 
        paragraphs (7) through (22) respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following:
            ``(6) Cloned livestock.--The term `cloned livestock' 
        means--
                    ``(A) livestock produced as the result of somatic 
                cell nuclear transfer or other asexual reproduction 
                technologies; and
                    ``(B) the progeny of such livestock.''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL STANDARDS FOR ORGANIC PRODUCTION.

    Section 2105 of the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 
6504) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4); and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
            ``(3) not be cloned livestock, or produced or derived from 
        or containing any part of cloned livestock; and''.
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