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
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
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
Plain-English summary
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
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1