S 1827
108th Congress
Senate
Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Department of Agriculture
Food industry
Frozen food
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Marketing orders
Produce trade
A bill to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to remove the requirement that processors be members of an agency administering a marketing order applicable to pears.
Introduced: November 5, 2003
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Nov 5, 2003
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Nov 5, 2003
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to eliminate pear marketing order requirements that: (1) processors be members of an agency administering a marketing order; and (2) processor and producer agency representation be equal respecting a marketing order for canned or frozen pears.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Committees of jurisdiction
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