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106TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION H. R. 5372

To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to enhance dairy markets

through dairy product mandatory reporting, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

OCTOBER 3, 2000

Mr. SMITH of Michigan introduced the following bill; which was referred to

the Committee on Agriculture

A BILL

To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to enhance dairy markets through dairy product mandatory

reporting, and for other purposes.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Dairy Market En5 hancement Act of 2000’’.

6 SEC. 2. DAIRY PRODUCT MANDATORY REPORTING.

7 The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C.

8 1621 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the fol9 lowing:
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1 ‘‘Subtitle C—Dairy Product

2 Mandatory Reporting

3 ‘‘SEC. 271. PURPOSE.

4 ‘‘The purpose of this subtitle is to establish a pro5 gram of information regarding the marketing of dairy

6 products that—

7 ‘‘(1) provides information that can be readily

8 understood by producers and other market partici9 pants, including information with respect to prices,

10 quantities sold, and inventories of dairy products;

11 ‘‘(2) improves the price and supply reporting

12 services of the Department of Agriculture; and

13 ‘‘(3) encourages competition in the marketplace

14 for dairy products.

15 ‘‘SEC. 272. DEFINITIONS.

16 ‘‘In this subtitle:

17 ‘‘(1) DAIRY PRODUCTS.—The term ‘dairy prod18 ucts’ means manufactured dairy products that are

19 used by the Secretary to establish minimum prices

20 for Class III and Class IV milk under a Federal

21 milk marketing order issued under section 8c of the

22 Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 608c), reen23 acted with amendments by the Agricultural Mar24 keting Agreement Act of 1937.
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1 ‘‘(2) MANUFACTURER.—The term ‘manufac2 turer’ means any person engaged in the business of

3 buying milk in commerce for the purpose of manu4 facturing dairy products.

5 ‘‘(3) PRODUCER.—The term ‘producer’ means

6 any person engaged in the production of milk for

7 commercial use.

8 ‘‘(4) SECRETARY.—The term ‘Secretary’ means

9 the Secretary of Agriculture.

10 ‘‘(5) UNITED STATES.—The term ‘United

11 States’ means collectively the 50 States, the District

12 of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and

13 the territories and possessions of the United States.

14 ‘‘SEC. 273. MANDATORY REPORTING FOR DAIRY PRODUCTS.

15 ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall estab16 lish a program of mandatory dairy product information

17 reporting that will—

18 ‘‘(1) provide timely, accurate, and reliable mar19 ket information;

20 ‘‘(2) facilitate more informed marketing deci21 sions; and

22 ‘‘(3) promote competition in the dairy product

23 manufacturing industry.

24 ‘‘(b) REQUIREMENTS.—In establishing the program,

25 the Secretary shall require—
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1 ‘‘(1) each manufacturer to report to the Sec2 retary, weekly, any information that the Secretary

3 determines to be necessary to establish minimum

4 prices for Class III and Class IV milk under a Fed5 eral milk marketing order issued under section 8c of

6 the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 608c),

7 reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural

8 Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, including infor9 mation concerning the price and quantity of dairy

10 products sold by the manufacturer; and

11 ‘‘(2) each manufacturer and other person stor12 ing dairy products to report to the Secretary, at a

13 periodic interval determined by the Secretary, infor14 mation on the quantity of dairy products stored.

15 ‘‘(c) ADMINISTRATION.—

16 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall pro17 mulgate such regulations as are necessary to ensure

18 compliance with, and otherwise carry out, this sub19 title.

20 ‘‘(2) APPLICABILITY OF OTHER REQUIRE21 MENTS.—The requirements of chapter 5 of subtitle

22 B shall apply to this subtitle, except to the extent

23 the Secretary determines the application of a provi24 sion is impracticable or needs to be modified.’’.
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1 SEC. 3. STUDY OF REPORTING MEASURES FOR DAIRY

2 PRODUCTS.

3 As soon as practicable after the date of enactment

4 of this Act, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission

5 shall conduct a study, and submit to Congress a report

6 on, the reporting measures for dairy products at the Chi7 cago Mercantile Exchange, including the types, quality,

8 and applicability of the reporting measures.

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