To amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to make it unlawful for
a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter. (Introduced
in the Senate)
S.L.C.
S 1738 IS
106th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1738
To amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to make it unlawful
for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
October 15, 1999
Mr. JOHNSON (for himself, Mr. KERREY, Mr. GRASSLEY, and Mr. THOMAS) introduced
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee
on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
A BILL
To amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to make it unlawful
for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON PACKERS OWNING, FEEDING, OR CONTROLLING LIVESTOCK.
(a) IN GENERAL- Section 202 of the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921
(7 U.S.C. 192), is amended--
(1) by redesignating subsections (f) and (g) as subsections (g) and
(h), respectively;
(2) by inserting after subsection (e) the following:
`(f) Own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter (for more
than 14 days prior to slaughter and acting through the packer or a person
that directly or indirectly controls, or is controlled by or under common
control with, the packer), except that this subsection shall not apply
to--
`(1) a cooperative, if a majority of the ownership interest in the
cooperative is held by active cooperative members that--
`(A) own, feed, or control livestock; and
`(B) provide the livestock to the cooperative for slaughter; or
`(2) a packer that is owned or controlled by producers of a type of
livestock, if during a calendar year the packer slaughters less than 2
percent of the head of that type of livestock slaughtered in the United
States; or'; and
(3) in subsection (h) (as so redesignated), by striking `or (e)' and
inserting `(e), or (f)'.
(1) IN GENERAL- Subject to paragraph (2), the amendments made by subsection
(a) take effect on the date of enactment of this Act.
(2) TRANSITION RULES- In the case of a packer that on the date of enactment
of this Act owns, feeds, or controls livestock intended for slaughter in
violation of section 202(f) of the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 (as
amended by subsection (a)), the amendments made by subsection (a) apply
to the packer--
(A) in the case of a packer of swine, beginning on the date that is
18 months after the date of enactment of this Act; and
(B) in the case of a packer of any other type of livestock, beginning
as soon as practicable, but not later than 180 days, after the date of
enactment of this Act, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture.