To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to convert the dairy forward pricing program into a permanent program of the Department of Agriculture.

Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to convert the dairy forward pricing program from a pilot program to a permanent program.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3308 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3308

 To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to convert the dairy forward 
     pricing program into a permanent program of the Department of 
                              Agriculture.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 16, 2003

Mr. Dooley of California (for himself, Mr. Gutknecht, Mr. Boehner, Mr. 
   Ose, Mr. Janklow, Mr. Rush, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Kirk, Mr. 
  Manzullo, Mr. Souder, Mr. LaTourette, Mr. Ford, Mr. Rodriguez, Mr. 
Sessions, Mr. Kind, and Mr. Petri) introduced the following bill; which 
              was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to convert the dairy forward 
     pricing program into a permanent program of the Department of 
                              Agriculture.

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

SECTION 1. PERMANENT DAIRY FORWARD PRICING PROGRAM.

    Section 23 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. 627), 
reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act 
of 1937, is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``PILOT'';
            (2) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in the subsection heading, by striking 
                ``Pilot''; and
                    (B) by striking ``Not later than'' and all that 
                follows through ``temporary pilot program'' and 
                inserting ``The Secretary of Agriculture shall conduct, 
                as a permanent program of the Department of 
                Agriculture, a program'';
            (3) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in the subsection heading, by striking 
                ``Pilot''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (1), by striking ``pilot''; and
            (4) by striking subsections (d) and (e).
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