HR 3810
107th Congress
House
Commerce
Administrative procedure
Agribusiness
Agricultural industries
Agricultural prices
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Antitrust law
Competition
Conspiracy
Corporate mergers
Department of Agriculture
Department of Justice
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Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Farm income
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Livestock Ownership Fairness Act of 2002
Introduced: February 27, 2002
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3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 6, 2002
Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
Feb 27, 2002
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Feb 27, 2002
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Livestock Ownership Fairness Act of 2002 - Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 to prohibit livestock packers directly or through a subsidiary, from conspiring to, or owning or feeding livestock to such an extent that the producer no longer materially participates in the management of the operation, with respect to livestock held for more than 14 days prior to slaughter. Exempts from such prohibition certain: (1) forward contracting arrangements under which the producer retains pre-delivery operational control of the livestock; (2) cooperatives that own, or feed livestock and provide such livestock for slaughter; or (3) certain small producer-owned or-controlled packers.
Directs the Attorney General to establish in the Department of Justice an Office of Special Counsel for Agriculture to handle agricultural antitrust and related matters.
Requires: (1) a person in the business of purchasing livestock, poultry, or a basic agricultural commodity for wholesale resale who files a premerger notice under the Clayton Act to file simultaneously a premerger notice with the Secretary of Agriculture; and (2) the Secretary to review the proposed merger and report to the Office of Special Counsel for Agriculture.
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What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
Committees of jurisdiction
3
Cosponsors
1