[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3166 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3166

 To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to index for 
  inflation the payment rate for payments under the milk income loss 
                           contract program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 9, 2009

  Mr. Welch (for himself, Mr. Carney, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Courtney, Mr. 
     Arcuri, Mr. Lee of New York, Ms. Shea-Porter, Mr. Thompson of 
 Pennsylvania, and Mr. Hodes) introduced the following bill; which was 
                referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to index for 
  inflation the payment rate for payments under the milk income loss 
                           contract program.

    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 ``Dairy Fairness Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. MILK INCOME LOSS CONTRACT PROGRAM.

    Section 1506(d) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 
(7 U.S.C. 8773(d)) is amended--
            (1) in the subsection heading, by inserting ``and 
        Inflation'' after ``Feed Prices'';
            (2) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) as 
        subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C), respectively, and indenting 
        appropriately;
            (3) by inserting after the subsection heading the 
        following:
            ``(1) Feed prices.--''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Inflation.--Effective on the first day of the first 
        month beginning after the date of enactment of the Dairy 
        Fairness Act of 2009 and each year thereafter, the amount 
        specified in subsection (c)(2)(A) used to determine the payment 
        rate for a month shall be adjusted to reflect changes for the 
        12-month period ending on the most recent date for which data 
        are available in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban 
        Consumers published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the 
        Department of Labor.''.
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