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
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
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
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
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2575-2576)
Committees of jurisdiction
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Cosponsors
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