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H.R.7501: To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to foster efficient markets and increase competition and transparency among packers that purchase livestock from producers.
About This Bill
- Introduced July 9, 2020
- Latest Major Action Sept. 3, 2020
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Bill Version
- Introduced in House - July 9, 2020
Bill Summary
This bill establishes that a minimum of 50% of a covered packer's weekly volume of livestock slaughter must be purchased through spot market sales from nonaffiliated producers. (The term covered packer applies to a packer that is required to report to the Department of Agriculture each reporting day information on the price and quantity of livestock purchased by such packer and does not include a packer that owns only one livestock processing...
(Source: Library of Congress)
Bill Actions
Date | Description |
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Sept. 3, 2020 |
Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
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July 9, 2020 |
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
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July 9, 2020 |
Introduced in the House by Cynthia Axne (D-Iowa) |