To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to provide for the termination
of milk marketing orders. (Introduced in the Senate)
S 1930 IS
106th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1930
To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to provide for the
termination of milk marketing orders.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
November 16, 1999
Mr. GRAMS 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 provide for the
termination of milk marketing orders.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. TERMINATION OF MILK MARKETING ORDERS.
(a) IN GENERAL- Section 8c of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C.
608c), reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement
Act of 1937, is amended by striking paragraphs (5) and (18).
(b) PROHIBITION ON SUBSEQUENT ORDERS REGARDING MILK- Section 8c(2)
of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 608c(2)), reenacted with amendments
by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, is amended in the
first sentence--
(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking `Milk, fruits' and inserting `Fruits';
and
(2) in subparagraph (B), by inserting `milk,' after `honey,'.
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS-
(1) Section 2(3) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 602(3)),
reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of
1937, is amended by striking `, other than milk and its products,'.
(2) Section 8c of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 608c),
reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of
1937, is amended--
(A) in paragraph (6), by striking `, other than milk and its products,';
(B) in paragraph (7)(B), by striking `(except for milk and cream to
be sold for consumption in fluid form)';
(C) in paragraph (11)(B), by striking `Except in the case of milk and
its products, orders' and inserting `Orders';
(D) in paragraph (13)(A), by striking `, except to a retailer in his
capacity as a retailer of milk and its products'; and
(E) in paragraph (17), by striking the second proviso.
(3) Section 8d(2) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 608d(2)),
reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of
1937, is amended by striking the second sentence.
(4) Section 10(b)(2) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 610(b)),
reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of
1937, is amended--
(A) by striking clause (i);
(B) by redesignating clauses (ii) and (iii) as clauses (i) and (ii),
respectively; and
(C) in the first sentence of clause (i) (as so redesignated), by striking
`other commodity' and inserting `commodity'.
(5) Section 11 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 611), reenacted
with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, is
amended in the first sentence by striking `and milk, and its products,'.
(6) Section 715 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug
Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994 (7 U.S.C.
608d note; Public Law 103-111; 107 Stat. 1079), is amended by striking
the third proviso.