[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1644 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
108th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1644
To amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to limit the number of
packer-owned swine that certain packers may slaughter in any calendar
year.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
September 23, 2003
Mr. Grassley introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
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A BILL
To amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to limit the number of
packer-owned swine that certain packers may slaughter in any calendar
year.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. ANNUAL LIMITATION ON NUMBER OF PACKER-OWNED SWINE
SLAUGHTERED BY CERTAIN PACKERS.
(a) In General.--Title II of the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921
(7 U.S.C. 191 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Subtitle C--Annual Limitation on Number of Packer-Owned Swine
Slaughtered by Certain Packers
``SEC. 231. DEFINITIONS.
``In this subtitle:
``(1) Affiliate.--The term `affiliate' has the meaning
given the term in section 231 of the Agricultural Marketing Act
of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1635i).
``(2) Packer.--The term `packer' has the meaning given the
term in section 231 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946
(7 U.S.C. 1635i).
``(3) Packer-owned swine.--The term `packer-owned swine'
means swine that a packer (including a subsidiary or affiliate
of the packer) owns for at least 7 days (excluding any Saturday
or Sunday) before slaughter.
``(4) Slaughter capacity.--The term `slaughter capacity'
means the total number of swine that a packer (including a
subsidiary or affiliate of the packer) could slaughter in a
calendar year if all federally inspected swine processing
plants operated by the packer were operated at full capacity
for 260 days each calendar year.
``(5) Swine.--The term `swine' has the meaning given the
term in section 231 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946
(7 U.S.C. 1635i).
``SEC. 232. UNLAWFUL PRACTICE.
``It shall be unlawful for any packer with an annual slaughter
capacity of more than 20,000,000 swine to slaughter more than
10,000,000 packer-owned swine in any calendar year.''.
(b) Effective Date.--
(1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), the amendment
made by subsection (a) takes effect on the date of enactment of
this Act.
(2) Existing packers.--In the case of a packer that, on the
date of enactment of this Act, would otherwise be in violation
of section 232 of the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 (as
added by subsection (a)), the amendment made by subsection (a)
takes effect on the date that is 18 months after the date of
enactment of this Act.
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