[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6834 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6834

   To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require the Secretary of 
  Agriculture to carry out a program to facilitate the partnership of 
  certain dairy distributors and certain dairy organizations, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 12, 2020

Mr. Pocan (for himself, Ms. Fudge, Mr. Kind, Mr. Lowenthal, Ms. Moore, 
  Mr. Morelle, Mr. Thompson of California, Mr. Welch, Mrs. Hayes, Ms. 
Kuster of New Hampshire, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. Craig, Ms. Stefanik, and 
 Ms. Pingree) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require the Secretary of 
  Agriculture to carry out a program to facilitate the partnership of 
  certain dairy distributors and certain dairy organizations, 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 ``Farmer's Milk in Low-Income Kitchens 
Act'' or the ``MILK Act''.

SEC. 2. DAIRY DISTRIBUTOR AND DAIRY ORGANIZATION PARTNERSHIPS.

    Section 1431 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9071) is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (j) as subsection (k);
            (2) in subsection (k), as so redesignated, by striking ``, 
        and $5,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter'' and inserting 
        ``and for each fiscal year thereafter''; and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (i) the following:
    ``(j) Dairy Distributor and Dairy Organization Partnerships.--The 
Secretary shall carry out a program to match eligible dairy 
organizations with eligible distributors under this section in order to 
facilitate the formation of eligible partnerships.''.
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