Fair Milk Pricing for Farmers Act

Bill: 119-s-581
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2025-02-13
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Latest action: action_date: 2025-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-02-13
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Fair Milk Pricing for Farmers Act</strong></p><p>This bill requires manufacturers to report production cost and product yield information for all dairy products processed in the same facility or facilities to the Department of Agriculture (USDA) Dairy Product Mandatory Reporting Program. Further, USDA must publish a report containing the information obtained under these new requirements and publish a report every two years thereafter.</p><p>As background, under the Dairy Product Mandatory Reporting Program, USDA must collect certain dairy product sales information from manufacturers and release the data&nbsp;on a weekly basis.</p>

tv_txt: II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 581 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 13, 2025 Mrs. Gillibrand (for herself, Ms. Collins , and Mrs. Shaheen ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry A BILL To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 with respect to mandatory reporting of dairy products processing costs.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fair Milk Pricing for Farmers Act . 2. Mandatory reporting of dairy products processing costs Section 273 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 ( 7 U.S.C. 1637b ) is amended— (1) in subsection (b)— (A) in paragraph (1)— (i) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by striking and at the end; (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (iii) by adding at the end the following: (C) for each manufacturer required to report under subparagraph (A) for any product, require that manufacturer to report production cost and product yield information, as determined by the Secretary, for all products processed in the same facility or facilities. ; and (B) in paragraph (2)(A), by inserting products and after those ; and (2) in subsection (d)— (A) in the subsection heading, by striking Electronic Reporting and inserting Reporting ; (B) in paragraph (1)— (i) in the paragraph heading, by striking Electronic reporting and inserting Reporting ; and (ii) by striking this section and inserting subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subsection (b)(1) ; (C) in paragraph (2), by striking this section and inserting subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subsection (b)(1) ; and (D) by adding at the end the following: (3) Dairy products processing costs Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this paragraph, and every 2 years thereafter, the Secretary shall publish a report containing the information obtained under subsection (b)(1)(C). .