Organic Restoration Act of 2003

Organic Restoration Act of 2003 - Amends the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003, to repeal the provision permitting a farm to be certified as organic with respect to livestock produced on such farm if it uses non-organically produced feed under certain cost-based circumstances.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 457 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 457

To remove the limitation on the use of funds to require a farm to feed 
livestock with organically produced feed to be certified as an organic 
                                 farm.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 26, 2003

 Mr. Leahy (for himself, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Allard, Mr. Allen, Mr. Baucus, 
Mr. Bingaman, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Campbell, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Coleman, Ms. 
 Collins, Mr. Craig, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Daschle, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Dodd, Mr. 
Domenici, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Feingold, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Grassley, Mr. 
 Gregg, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Kerry, 
    Mr. Kohl, Mr. Levin, Mr. Lieberman, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Nelson of 
  Florida, Mr. Reid, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. 
    Schumer, Mr. Smith, Mr. Sununu, Mr. Warner, Mr. Wyden, and Ms. 
   Cantwell) 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 remove the limitation on the use of funds to require a farm to feed 
livestock with organically produced feed to be certified as an organic 
                                 farm.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Organic Restoration Act of 2003''.

SEC. 2. USE OF ORGANICALLY PRODUCED FEED FOR CERTIFICATION AS ORGANIC 
              FARM.

    Section 771 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003 is 
repealed.
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