House Journal: Page 1464: Tuesday, April 20, 1999

	House File 720, a bill for an act relating to practices involving the 

marketing of livestock by packers, by prohibiting price discrimina-
tion, requiring reporting, and providing criminal penalties and civil 
remedies, was taken up for consideration.
Klemme of Plymouth offered the following amendment H?1640 
filed by him and moved its adoption:
H-1640
 1     Amend House File 720 as follows:
 2     1.  By striking everything after the enacting
 3   clause and inserting the following:
 4     "Section 1.  Section 22.7, Code 1999, is amended by
 5   adding the following new subsection:
 6     NEW SUBSECTION.  38.  Information revealing the
 7   identity of a packer or a person who sells livestock
 8   to a packer as reported to the department of
 9   agriculture and land stewardship pursuant to section
10   172C.2.
11     Sec. 2. NEW SECTION.  172C.1  DEFINITIONS.
12     1.  "Department" means the department of
13   agriculture and land stewardship.
14     2.  "Livestock" means live cattle, swine, or sheep.
15     3.  "Packer" means a person who is engaged in the
16   business of slaughtering livestock or receiving,
17   purchasing, or soliciting livestock for slaughter, if
18   the meat products of the slaughtered livestock which
19   are directly or indirectly to be offered for resale or
20   for public consumption and the meat products have a
21   total annual value of ten million dollars or more.  As
22   used in this chapter, "packer" includes an agent of
23   the packer engaged in buying or soliciting livestock
24   for slaughter on behalf of a packer.  "Packer" does
25   not include a frozen food locker plant regulated under
26   chapter 172.
27     Sec. 3. NEW SECTION.  172C.2  PURCHASE REPORTS --
28   FILING.
29     1.  A packer shall file purchase reports with the
30   department which include information relating to the
31   purchase of livestock as required by the department.
32   The purchase reports shall be completed in a manner
33   prescribed by the department.  The department may
34   require that purchase reports be filed in an
35   electronic format.  A packer shall file purchase
36   reports at times determined practicable by the
37   department, but not later than two business days
38   following the event being reported.
39     2.  a.  The information required to be reported may
40   include but is not limited to livestock purchased,

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