| 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 142 IS
107th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 142
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
January 22, 2001
Mr. JOHNSON (for himself, Mr.
GRASSLEY, Mr. THOMAS, and Mr. DASCHLE) 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.
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