To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to implement mandatory country of origin labeling requirements for meat and produce on September 30, 2006.

Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to change the country of origin labeling implementation date to September 30, 2006.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4365 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4365

To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to implement mandatory 
    country of origin labeling requirements for meat and produce on 
                          September 30, 2006.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 17, 2005

   Mrs. Bono (for herself, Ms. Hooley, Mrs. Cubin, Ms. Herseth, Mr. 
   Rehberg, and Ms. Kaptur) introduced the following bill; which was 
                referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to implement mandatory 
    country of origin labeling requirements for meat and produce on 
                          September 30, 2006.

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

SECTION 1. IMPLEMENTATION OF COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABELING FOR MEAT AND 
              PRODUCE ON SEPTEMBER 30, 2006.

    Section 285 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 
1638d) is amended by striking ``2008'' and inserting ``2006''.
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