Title: Small Packer Overtime and Holiday Fee Relief for COVID–19 Act of 2020
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Small Packer Overtime and Holiday Fee Relief for COVID-19 Act of 2020
This bill requires the Department of Agriculture to reduce the fees charged to small meat, poultry, and egg processing plants for inspections that occur during overtime hours or on holidays. The bill also provides funding to implement the requirements.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6977 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6977

To provide overtime and holiday fee relief for small meat, poultry, and 
             egg processing plants, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 22, 2020

Mr. Johnson of South Dakota (for himself, Ms. Craig, Mr. Hagedorn, and 
 Mr. Fortenberry) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                      the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide overtime and holiday fee relief for small meat, poultry, and 
             egg processing plants, 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 ``Small Packer Overtime and Holiday 
Fee Relief for COVID-19 Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. OVERTIME AND HOLIDAY FEE RELIEF FOR SMALL MEAT, POULTRY, AND 
              EGG PROCESSING PLANTS.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Covered act.--The term ``covered Act'' means--
                    (A) the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601 
                et seq.);
                    (B) the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 
                451 et seq.); and
                    (C) the Egg Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 1031 
                et seq.).
            (2) Establishment.--The term ``establishment'' means--
                    (A) a meat establishment subject to the 
                requirements of the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 
                U.S.C. 601 et seq.);
                    (B) a poultry establishment subject to the 
                requirements of the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 
                U.S.C. 451 et seq.); and
                    (C) an egg products processing plant subject to the 
                requirements of the Egg Products Inspection Act (21 
                U.S.C. 1031 et seq.).
            (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of Agriculture.
            (4) Small establishment; very small establishment.--The 
        terms ``small establishment'' and ``very small establishment'' 
        have the meaning given those terms in the final rule entitled 
        ``Pathogen Reduction; Hazard Analysis and Critical Control 
        Point (HACCP) Systems'' (61 Fed. Reg. 38806 (July 25, 1996)).
    (b) Overtime and Holiday Fees.--
            (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
        law, for an inspection of an establishment conducted pursuant 
        to a covered Act, the Secretary shall discount the rate 
        charged--
                    (A) by not less than 30 percent of the overtime and 
                holiday published rate in the case of a small 
                establishment; and
                    (B) by not less than 75 percent of the overtime and 
                holiday published rate in the case of a very small 
                establishment.
            (2) Rulemaking; retroactive implementation.--Not later than 
        60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
        shall--
                    (A) complete a rulemaking establishing the 
                discounted rates required under paragraph (1); and
                    (B) implement those discounted rates to apply 
                retroactively to the date of enactment of this Act.
    (c) Effectiveness.--The Secretary--
            (1) shall carry out subsection (b) until the funds 
        appropriated under subsection (d) are expended; and
            (2) may carry out subsection (b) after those funds are 
        expended only to the extent and in the amount provided in 
        advance in appropriations Acts.
    (d) Funding.--There is appropriated to the Secretary, out of funds 
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $58,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, to carry out subsection (b).
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