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HR 2597 104th Congress House Agriculture and Food Administrative procedure Agricultural economics Agricultural price supports Agriculture in foreign trade Commerce Dairy industry Dairy products Department of Agriculture Export subsidies Fines (Penalties) Foreign Trade and International Finance Foreign trade promotion Government Operations and Politics Law Marketing of farm produce Marketing orders Milk Trade agreements

To modify the price support program for milk; to establish a class IV account applicable to the products of milk; to modify the dairy export incentive program; and to consolidate and reform Federal milk marketing orders.

Introduced: November 8, 1995 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Nov 13, 1995
Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry.
Nov 8, 1995
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Nov 8, 1995
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish milk price support provisions for calendar years 1996 through 2002.

Mandates establishment of a special milk marketing order to equalize returns on all milk used in the 48 contiguous States to produce Class IV final products (butter, nonfat dry milk, and dry whole milk) among all milk marketed by producers for commercial use in those States.

Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the termination date of the dairy products export incentive program (renaming it as the exporter bid program). Establishes a dairy products export incentive program (the price equalization program), requiring it to provide for payments by the Commodity Credit Corporation to the Administrator of the Class IV account established under the Agricultural Reconciliation Act of 1995.

Mandates inviting proposals and conducting expedited hearings on consolidating and reforming Federal milk marketing orders issued under specified provisions of the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, including considering how all milk shall be regulated under Federal or State order, with manufacturing grade producers receiving pool proceeds from Class III and Class IV sales only. Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that Federal milk marketing orders in operation under the Agricultural Adjustment Act should be consolidated to between 8 and 14 orders.

What's happening now November 13, 1995

Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry.

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