S 142 · 107th Congress · Agriculture and Food

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 2001-01-22· Sponsored by Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]· Senate

Bill Progress

Introduced
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Committee
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Senate Vote
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House
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Enacted
Latest: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2575-2576)(2001-03-20)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] 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.…

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Cosponsors (4)

2 Democrats2 Republicans