[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2565 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
108th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 2565
To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to convert the dairy forward
pricing program into a permanent program of the Department of
Agriculture.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
June 23 (legislative day, June 22), 2004
Mr. Crapo (for himself, Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. Lugar, Mr. Smith, Mr.
Wyden, Mr. Craig, and Mr. Roberts) 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 Agricultural Adjustment Act to convert the dairy forward
pricing program into a permanent program of the Department of
Agriculture.
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 ``Milk Price Forward Contracting
Act''.
SEC. 2. PERMANENT DAIRY FORWARD PRICING PROGRAM.
Section 23 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 627),
reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act
of 1937, is amended--
(1) in the section heading, by striking ``pilot'';
(2) in subsection (a)--
(A) in the subsection heading, by striking
``Pilot''; and
(B) by striking ``Not later than'' and all that
follows through ``temporary pilot program'' and
inserting ``The Secretary of Agriculture shall conduct,
as a permanent program of the Department of
Agriculture, a program'';
(3) in subsection (c)--
(A) in the subsection heading, by striking
``pilot''; and
(B) in paragraph (1), by striking ``pilot''; and
(4) by striking subsections (d) and (e).
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