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S 142 107th 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 unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter.

Introduced: January 22, 2001 See on congress.gov
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It never became law before the 107th Congress (2001–2002) 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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Became law
Mar 20, 2001
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2575-2576)
Jan 22, 2001
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S415)
Jan 22, 2001
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 March 20, 2001

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2575-2576)

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1
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Grassley, Chuck
Iowa · Jan 22, 2001
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 142: A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to make unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter.. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-S-142/
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"S. 142: A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to make unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter.." 107th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/107-S-142/.
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S. 142, 107th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/107-S-142/.
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[S. 142: A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to make unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter.](https://openamerica.io/bill/107-S-142/)
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