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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2051 

To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to extend the livestock 

mandatory price reporting requirements, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 28, 2015 

Mr. CONAWAY (for himself, Mr. PETERSON, and Mr. ROUZER) introduced the 

following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture 

A BILL 

To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to extend 

the livestock mandatory price reporting requirements, 

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 ‘‘Mandatory Price Re5 porting Act of 2015’’. 

6 SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF LIVESTOCK MANDATORY REPORT7 ING. 

8 (a) EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY.—Section 260 of the 

9 Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1636i) is 


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1 amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2015’’ and inserting 

2 ‘‘September 30, 2020’’. 

3 (b) EMERGENCY AUTHORITY.—Section 212(12)(C) 

4 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 

5 1635a(12)(C)) is amended by inserting ‘‘, including any 

6 day on which any Department employee is on shutdown 

7 or emergency furlough as a result of a lapse in appropria8 tions’’ after ‘‘conduct business’’. 

9 (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 942 of the 

10 Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999 (7 U.S.C. 

11 1635 note; Public Law 106–78) is amended by striking 

12 ‘‘September 30, 2015’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 

13 2020’’. 

14 SEC. 3. SWINE REPORTING. 

15 (a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 231 of the Agricultural 

16 Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1635i) is amended— 

17 (1) by redesignating paragraphs (9) through 

18 (22) as paragraphs (10) through (23), respectively; 

19 (2) by inserting after paragraph (8) the fol20 lowing new paragraph: 

21 ‘‘(9) NEGOTIATED FORMULA PURCHASE.—The 

22 term ‘negotiated formula purchase’ means a pur23 chase of swine by a packer from a producer under 

24 which— 


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1 ‘‘(A) the pricing mechanism is a formula 

2 price for which the formula is determined by 

3 negotiation on a lot-by-lot basis; and 

4 ‘‘(B) the swine are scheduled for delivery 

5 to the packer not later than 14 days after the 

6 date on which the formula is negotiated and 

7 swine are committed to the packer.’’; 

8 (3) in paragraph (12)(A) (as so redesignated), 

9 by inserting ‘‘negotiated formula purchase,’’ after 

10 ‘‘pork market formula purchase,’’; and 

11 (4) in paragraph (23) (as so redesignated)— 

12 (A) in subparagraph (C), by striking 

13 ‘‘and’’ at the end; 

14 (B) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as 

15 subparagraph (E); and 

16 (C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) 

17 the following new subparagraph: 

18 ‘‘(D) a negotiated formula purchase; and’’. 

19 (b) DAILY REPORTING.—Section 232(c) of the Agri20 cultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1635j(c)) is 

21 amended— 

22 (1) in paragraph (1)(D), by striking clause (ii) 

23 and inserting the following new clause: 


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1 ‘‘(ii) PRICE DISTRIBUTIONS.—The in2 formation published by the Secretary 

3 under clause (i) shall include— 

4 ‘‘(I) a distribution of net prices 

5 in the range between and including 

6 the lowest net price and the highest 

7 net price reported; 

8 ‘‘(II) a delineation of the number 

9 of barrows and gilts at each reported 

10 price level or, at the option of the Sec11 retary, the number of barrows and 

12 gilts within each of a series of reason13 able price bands within the range of 

14 prices; and 

15 ‘‘(III) the total number and 

16 weighted average price of barrows and 

17 gilts purchased through negotiated 

18 purchases and negotiated formula 

19 purchases.’’; and 

20 (2) in paragraph (3), by adding at the end the 

21 following new subparagraph: 

22 ‘‘(C) LATE IN THE DAY REPORT INFORMA23 TION.—The Secretary shall include in the 

24 morning report and the afternoon report for the 

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1 ported under subparagraph (A) that is obtained 

2 after the time of the reporting day specified in 

3 such subparagraph.’’. 

4 SEC. 4. LAMB REPORTING. 

5 Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact6 ment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall revise 

7 section 59.300 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations so 

8 that— 

9 (1) the definition of the term ‘‘importer’’— 

10 (A) includes only those importers that im11 ported an average of 1,000 metric tons of lamb 

12 meat products per year during the immediately 

13 preceding 4 calendar years; and 

14 (B) may include any person that does not 

15 meet the requirement referred to in subpara16 graph (A), if the Secretary determines that the 

17 person should be considered an importer based 

18 on their volume of lamb imports; and 

19 (2) the definition of the term ‘‘packer’’— 

20 (A) applies to any entity with 50 percent 

21 or more ownership in a facility; 

22 (B) includes a federally inspected lamb 

23 processing plant which slaughtered or processed 

24 the equivalent of an average of 35,000 head of 


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1 lambs per year during the immediately pre2 ceding 5 calendar years; and 

3 (C) may include any other lamb processing 

4 plant that did not meet not meet the require5 ment referred to in subparagraph (B), if the 

6 Secretary determines that the processing plant 

7 should be considered a packer after considering 

8 its capacity. 

9 SEC. 5. STUDY ON LIVESTOCK MANDATORY REPORTING. 

10 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agriculture, act11 ing through the Agricultural Marketing Service in con12 junction with the Office of the Chief Economist and in 

13 consultation with cattle, swine, and lamb producers, pack14 ers, and other market participants, shall conduct a study 

15 on the program of information regarding the marketing 

16 of cattle, swine, lambs, and products of such livestock 

17 under subtitle B of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 

18 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1635 et seq.). Such study shall— 

19 (1) analyze current marketing practices in the 

20 cattle, swine, and lamb markets; 

21 (2) identify legislative or regulatory rec22 ommendations made by cattle, swine, and lamb pro23 ducers, packers, and other market participants to 

24 ensure that information provided under such pro25 gram— 


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1 (A) can be readily understood by pro2 ducers, packers, and other market participants; 

3 (B) reflects current marketing practices; 

4 and 

5 (C) is relevant and useful to producers, 

6 packers, and other market participants; 

7 (3) analyze the price and supply information re8 porting services of the Department of Agriculture re9 lated to cattle, swine, and lamb; and 

10 (4) address any other issues that the Secretary 

11 considers appropriate. 

12 (b) REPORT.—Not later than January 1, 2020, the 

13 Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to the Committee on 

14 Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Com15 mittee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Sen16 ate a report containing the findings of the study conducted 

17 under subsection (a). 

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