[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3656 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]
S.3656
One Hundred Eleventh Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the fifth day of January, two thousand and ten
An Act
To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to improve the reporting
on sales of livestock and dairy products, 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 ``Mandatory Price Reporting Act of
2010''.
SEC. 2. LIVESTOCK MANDATORY REPORTING.
(a) Extension of Authority.--
(1) In general.--Section 260 of the Agricultural Marketing Act
of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1636i) is amended by striking ``September 30,
2010'' and inserting ``September 30, 2015''.
(2) Conforming amendment and extension.--Section 942 of the
Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999 (7 U.S.C. 1635 note;
Public Law 106-78) is amended by striking ``September 30, 2010''
and inserting ``September 30, 2015''.
(b) Wholesale Pork Cuts.--
(1) Reporting.--Chapter 3 of subtitle B of the Agricultural
Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1635i et seq.) is amended by adding
at the end the following new section:
``SEC. 233. MANDATORY REPORTING OF WHOLESALE PORK CUTS.
``(a) Reporting.--The corporate officers or officially designated
representatives of each packer shall report to the Secretary
information concerning the price and volume of wholesale pork cuts, as
the Secretary determines is necessary and appropriate.
``(b) Publication.--The Secretary shall publish information
reported under subsection (a) as the Secretary determines necessary and
appropriate.''.
(2) Negotiated rulemaking.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall
establish a negotiated rulemaking process pursuant to subchapter
III of chapter 5 of title 5, United States Code, to negotiate and
develop a proposed rule to implement the amendment made by
paragraph (1).
(3) Negotiated rulemaking committee.--
(A) Representation.--Any negotiated rulemaking committee
established by the Secretary of Agriculture pursuant to
paragraph (2) shall include representatives from--
(i) organizations representing swine producers;
(ii) organizations representing packers of pork,
processors of pork, retailers of pork, and buyers of
wholesale pork;
(iii) the Department of Agriculture; and
(iv) among interested parties that participate in swine
or pork production.
(B) Inapplicability of federal advisory committee act.--Any
negotiated rulemaking committee established by the Secretary of
Agriculture pursuant to paragraph (2) shall not be subject to
the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.).
(4) Timing of proposed and final rules.--In carrying out the
negotiated rulemaking process under paragraph (2), the Secretary of
Agriculture shall ensure that--
(A) any recommendation for a proposed rule or report is
provided to the Secretary of Agriculture not later than 180
days after the date of the enactment of this Act; and
(B) a final rule is promulgated not later than one and a
half years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
(c) Pork Export Reporting.--Section 602(a)(1) of the Agricultural
Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5712(a)(1)) is amended by striking
``cotton,'' and inserting ``cotton, pork,''.
SEC. 3. DAIRY MANDATORY REPORTING.
(a) Electronic Reporting Required.--Subsection (d) of section 273
of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1637b) is amended
to read as follows:
``(d) Electronic Reporting.--
``(1) Electronic reporting system required.--The Secretary
shall establish an electronic reporting system to carry out this
section.
``(2) Publication.--Not later than 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time on
the Wednesday of each week, the Secretary shall publish a report
containing the information obtained under this section for the
preceding week.''.
(b) Implementation.--Not later than one year after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall implement the
electronic reporting system required by subsection (d) of section 273
of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1637b), as amended
by subsection (a). Until the electronic reporting system is
implemented, the Secretary shall continue to conduct mandatory dairy
product information reporting under the authority of such section, as
in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this Act.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.