A bill to amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to repeal a duplicative program relating to inspection and grading of catfish.

Bill: 113-s-632
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2013-03-21
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural marketing and promotion

Aquaculture
Latest action: action_date: 2013-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-03-21
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Repeals a provision of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 establishing an inspection and grading program for catfish and other species of farm-raised fish shellfish effective on the date of enactment of such Act.</p>

tv_txt: II 113th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 632 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 21, 2013 Mr. McCain (for himself, Mrs. Shaheen , Mr. Coburn , Mr. Nelson , Ms. Ayotte , Mr. Kirk , Mrs. Murray , Mr. Warner , Ms. Cantwell , Mr. Crapo , and Mr. Risch ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry A BILL To amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to repeal a duplicative program relating to inspection and grading of catfish.

1. Repeal of duplicative program (a) In general Effective on the date of enactment of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8701 et seq.), section 11016 of that Act ( Public Law 110–246 ; 122 Stat. 2130) and the amendments made by that section are repealed. (b) Application The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 ( 7 U.S.C. 1621 et seq. ) and the Federal Meat Inspection Act ( 21 U.S.C. 601 et seq. ) shall be applied and administered as if section 11016 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–246; 122 Stat. 2130) and the amendments made by that section had not been enacted.