I 
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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE . 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mandatory Price Re-
porting Act of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF LIVESTOCK MANDATORY REPORT-
ING. 
(a) EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY.—Section 260 of the 
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1636i) is 
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amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2015’’ and inserting 
‘‘September 30, 2020’’. 
(b) EMERGENCY AUTHORITY.—Section 212(12)(C) 
of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 
1635a(12)(C)) is amended by inserting ‘‘, including any 
day on which any Department employee is on shutdown 
or emergency furlough as a result of a lapse in appropria-
tions’’ after ‘‘conduct business’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—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, 2015’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 
2020’’. 
SEC. 3. SWINE REPORTING. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 231 of the Agricultural 
Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1635i) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (9) through 
(22) as paragraphs (10) through (23), respectively; 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (8) the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(9) NEGOTIATED FORMULA PURCHASE.—The 
term ‘negotiated formula purchase’ means a pur-
chase of swine by a packer from a producer under 
which— 
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‘‘(A) the pricing mechanism is a formula 
price for which the formula is determined by 
negotiation on a lot-by-lot basis; and 
‘‘(B) the swine are scheduled for delivery 
to the packer not later than 14 days after the 
date on which the formula is negotiated and 
swine are committed to the packer.’’; 
(3) in paragraph (12)(A) (as so redesignated), 
by inserting ‘‘negotiated formula purchase,’’ after 
‘‘pork market formula purchase,’’; and 
(4) in paragraph (23) (as so redesignated)— 
(A) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(B) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as 
subparagraph (E); and 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) 
the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(D) a negotiated formula purchase; and’’. 
(b) DAILY REPORTING.—Section 232(c) of the Agri-
cultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1635j(c)) is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)(D), by striking clause (ii) 
and inserting the following new clause: 
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‘‘(ii) PRICE DISTRIBUTIONS.—The in-
formation published by the Secretary 
under clause (i) shall include— 
‘‘(I) a distribution of net prices 
in the range between and including 
the lowest net price and the highest 
net price reported; 
‘‘(II) a delineation of the number 
of barrows and gilts at each reported 
price level or, at the option of the Sec-
retary, the number of barrows and 
gilts within each of a series of reason-
able price bands within the range of 
prices; and 
‘‘(III) the total number and 
weighted average price of barrows and 
gilts purchased through negotiated 
purchases and negotiated formula 
purchases.’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (3), by adding at the end the 
following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(C) LATE IN THE DAY REPORT INFORMA-
TION.—The Secretary shall include in the 
morning report and the afternoon report for the 
following day any information required to be re-
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