IIB 

114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2051 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 10, 2015 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 

and Forestry 

AN ACT 

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, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE . 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mandatory Price Re3 porting Act of 2015’’. 

4 SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF LIVESTOCK MANDATORY REPORT5 ING. 

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

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

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

9 ‘‘September 30, 2020’’. 

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

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

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

13 day on which any Department employee is on shutdown 

14 or emergency furlough as a result of a lapse in appropria15 tions’’ after ‘‘conduct business’’. 

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

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

18 1635 note; Public Law 106–78) is amended by striking 

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

20 2020’’. 

21 SEC. 3. SWINE REPORTING. 

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

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

24 (1) by redesignating paragraphs (9) through 

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


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1 (2) by inserting after paragraph (8) the fol2 lowing new paragraph: 

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

4 term ‘negotiated formula purchase’ means a pur5 chase of swine by a packer from a producer under 

6 which— 

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

8 price for which the formula is determined by 

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

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

11 to the packer not later than 14 days after the 

12 date on which the formula is negotiated and 

13 swine are committed to the packer.’’; 

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

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

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

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

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

19 ‘‘and’’ at the end; 

20 (B) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as 

21 subparagraph (E); and 

22 (C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) 

23 the following new subparagraph: 

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


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1 (b) DAILY REPORTING.—Section 232(c) of the Agri2 cultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1635j(c)) is 

3 amended— 

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

5 and inserting the following new clause: 

6 ‘‘(ii) PRICE DISTRIBUTIONS.—The in7 formation published by the Secretary 

8 under clause (i) shall include— 

9 ‘‘(I) a distribution of net prices 

10 in the range between and including 

11 the lowest net price and the highest 

12 net price reported; 

13 ‘‘(II) a delineation of the number 

14 of barrows and gilts at each reported 

15 price level or, at the option of the Sec16 retary, the number of barrows and 

17 gilts within each of a series of reason18 able price bands within the range of 

19 prices; and 

20 ‘‘(III) the total number and 

21 weighted average price of barrows and 

22 gilts purchased through negotiated 

23 purchases and negotiated formula 

24 purchases.’’; and 


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

2 following new subparagraph: 

3 ‘‘(C) LATE IN THE DAY REPORT INFORMA4 TION.—The Secretary shall include in the 

5 morning report and the afternoon report for the 

6 following day any information required to be re7 ported under subparagraph (A) that is obtained 

8 after the time of the reporting day specified in 

9 such subparagraph.’’. 

10 SEC. 4. LAMB REPORTING. 

11 Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact12 ment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall revise 

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

14 that— 

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

16 (A) includes only those importers that im17 ported an average of 1,000 metric tons of lamb 

18 meat products per year during the immediately 

19 preceding 4 calendar years; and 

20 (B) may include any person that does not 

21 meet the requirement referred to in subpara22 graph (A), if the Secretary determines that the 

23 person should be considered an importer based 

24 on their volume of lamb imports; and 

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


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1 (A) applies to any entity with 50 percent 

2 or more ownership in a facility; 

3 (B) includes a federally inspected lamb 

4 processing plant which slaughtered or processed 

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

6 lambs per year during the immediately pre7 ceding 5 calendar years; and 

8 (C) may include any other lamb processing 

9 plant that did not meet the requirement re10 ferred to in subparagraph (B), if the Secretary 

11 determines that the processing plant should be 

12 considered a packer after considering its capac13 ity. 

14 SEC. 5. STUDY ON LIVESTOCK MANDATORY REPORTING. 

15 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agriculture, act16 ing through the Agricultural Marketing Service in con17 junction with the Office of the Chief Economist and in 

18 consultation with cattle, swine, and lamb producers, pack19 ers, and other market participants, shall conduct a study 

20 on the program of information regarding the marketing 

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

22 under subtitle B of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 

23 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1635 et seq.). Such study shall— 

24 (1) analyze current marketing practices in the 

25 cattle, swine, and lamb markets; 


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1 (2) identify legislative or regulatory rec2 ommendations made by cattle, swine, and lamb pro3 ducers, packers, and other market participants to 

4 ensure that information provided under such pro5 gram— 

6 (A) can be readily understood by pro7 ducers, packers, and other market participants; 

8 (B) reflects current marketing practices; 

9 and 

10 (C) is relevant and useful to producers, 

11 packers, and other market participants; 

12 (3) analyze the price and supply information re13 porting services of the Department of Agriculture re14 lated to cattle, swine, and lamb; and 

15 (4) address any other issues that the Secretary 

16 considers appropriate. 

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

18 Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to the Committee on 

19 Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Com20 mittee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the 


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1 Senate a report containing the findings of the study con2 ducted under subsection (a). 

Passed the House of Representatives June 9, 2015. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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