109th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 869
To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to prohibit the Secretary
of Agriculture from basing minimum prices for Class I milk on the distance
or transportation costs from any location that is not within a marketing area,
except under certain circumstances, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
April 21, 2005
Mr. FEINGOLD introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
A BILL
To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to prohibit the Secretary
of Agriculture from basing minimum prices for Class I milk on the distance
or transportation costs from any location that is not within a marketing area,
except under certain circumstances, 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 `Federal Milk Marketing Reform Act of 2005'.
SEC. 2. LOCATION ADJUSTMENTS FOR MINIMUM PRICES FOR CLASS I MILK.
Section 8c(5) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 608c(5)), reenacted
with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, is amended--
(A) in clause (3) of the second sentence, by inserting after `the locations'
the following: `within a marketing area subject to the order'; and
(B) by striking the last 2 sentences and inserting the following: `Notwithstanding
subsection (18) or any other provision of law, when fixing minimum prices
for milk of the highest use classification in a marketing area subject
to an order under this subsection, the Secretary may not, directly or
indirectly, base the prices on the distance from, or all or part of the
costs incurred to transport milk to or from, any location that is not
within the marketing area subject to the order, unless milk from the location
constitutes at least 50 percent of the total supply of milk of the highest
use classification in the marketing area. The Secretary shall report to
the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee
on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate on the criteria
that are used as the basis for the minimum prices referred to in the preceding
sentence, including a certification that the minimum prices are made in
accordance with the preceding sentence.'; and
(2) in paragraph (B)(c), by inserting after `the locations' the following:
`within a marketing area subject to the order'.
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