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S 1738 106th Congress Senate Agriculture and Food Agricultural cooperatives Animals Commerce Livestock Livestock industry Meat packing industry

A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to make it unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter.

Introduced: October 15, 1999 See on congress.gov
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This bill died when the 106th Congress ended
It never became law before the 106th Congress (1999–2000) adjourned, and bills don't carry over to the next Congress. It would have to be reintroduced. You can still save it for reference, but it won't receive updates.
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Oct 15, 1999
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Oct 15, 1999
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12696-12697)
Oct 15, 1999
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 to make it unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter, with exceptions for: (1) a cooperative whose majority membership owns, feeds, or controls the livestock that the cooperative slaughters; or (2) a packer, owned or controlled by producers of a type of livestock, that slaughters less than two percent of such livestock slaughtered annually in the United States.
What's happening now October 15, 1999

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

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Grassley, Chuck
Iowa · Oct 15, 1999
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1738: A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to make it unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter.. 106th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/106-S-1738/
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"S. 1738: A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to make it unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter.." 106th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/106-S-1738/.
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S. 1738, 106th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/106-S-1738/.
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