A bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to restore the original deadline for mandatory country of origin.

Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to change the country of origin labeling implementation date to September 30, 2006.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2038 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2038

To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to restore the original 
           deadline for mandatory country of origin labeling.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 17, 2005

Mr. Burns (for himself, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Thune, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Enzi, 
  Mr. Thomas, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Dorgan, Mr. 
 Conrad, Mr. Byrd, and Mr. Wyden) introduced the following bill; which 
was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 
                              and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to restore the original 
           deadline for mandatory country of origin labeling.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABELING.

    Section 285 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 
1638d) is amended by striking ``2008'' and inserting ``2006''.
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