[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3499 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3499

To require the Secretary of Agriculture to use section 32 of the Act of 
 August 24, 1935, to provide compensation to certain poultry producers 
   whose poultry production contracts were terminated or not renewed 
  because of the closure of poultry processing plants and other cost 
    cutting measures undertaken by a poultry processing company in 
                         bankruptcy protection.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 18, 2011

 Mr. Price of North Carolina introduced the following bill; which was 
                referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to use section 32 of the Act of 
 August 24, 1935, to provide compensation to certain poultry producers 
   whose poultry production contracts were terminated or not renewed 
  because of the closure of poultry processing plants and other cost 
    cutting measures undertaken by a poultry processing company in 
                         bankruptcy protection.

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

SECTION 1. COMPENSATION FOR ECONOMIC LOSSES DUE TO LOSS OF POULTRY 
              PRODUCTION CONTRACTS WITH BANKRUPT POULTRY PROCESSING 
              COMPANY.

    Using amounts in the fund established under section 32 of the Act 
of August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c), and the authority provided by 
paragraph (3) of the second sentence of such section, the Secretary of 
Agriculture, acting through the Farm Service Agency, shall provide 
compensation to poultry producers whose poultry production contracts 
were terminated or not renewed during the period beginning on December 
1, 2010, and ending on the date of the enactment of this Act, because 
of the closure of poultry processing plants and other cost cutting 
measures undertaken by a poultry processing company in bankruptcy 
protection. A poultry producer seeking compensation under this section 
shall be required to document to the satisfaction of the Secretary the 
termination or non-renewal of a production contract and the subsequent 
economic losses incurred by the producer as a result of the termination 
or non-renewal of the contract by the poultry processing company.
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