    [United States Statutes at Large, Volume 124, 111th Congress, 2nd Session]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    Public Law 111-239
    111th Congress

    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;

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    (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

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    of such section, as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of
    this Act.

    Approved September 27, 2010.

    LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 3656:
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    CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 156 (2010):
    Aug. 5, considered and passed Senate.
    Sept. 15, considered and passed House.