A bill to equalize the minimum adjustments to prices for fluid milk under milk marketing orders.

Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to establish equal marketing order price adjustments for class I (fluid) milk for all marketing areas.

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 917 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 917

To equalize the minimum adjustments to prices for fluid milk under milk 
                           marketing orders.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 29, 1999

Mr. Grams (for himself and Mr. Feingold) 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 equalize the minimum adjustments to prices for fluid milk under milk 
                           marketing orders.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EQUALIZATION OF MINIMUM PRICE ADJUSTMENT FOR CLASS I MILK 
              FOR ALL MARKETING AREAS.

    (a) Use of Same Price.--Section 8c(5) of the Agricultural 
Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 608c(5)), reenacted with amendments by the 
Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, is amended in paragraph 
(A)--
            (1) in the third sentence--
                    (A) by striking ``Throughout'' and all that follows 
                through ``order involved), the'' and inserting ``The''; 
                and
                    (b) by striking ``on the date'' and all that 
                follows through the end of the table in that sentence 
                and inserting ``shall be the same for each marketing 
                area subject to an order and shall be $1.80 per 
                hundredweight of milk having 3.5 percent milkfat, with 
                a transportation surcharge determined by the Secretary 
                to compensate handlers for the actual cost of moving 
                milk within and between orders.'';
        and
            (2) by striking the fourth sentence.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) take 
effect on the first day of the first month beginning more than 120 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act.
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