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Senate Amendment 3136

Amendment Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend Senate Concurrent Resolution 13 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  Page 1, by striking lines 3 through 6, and
  1  3 inserting the following:
  1  4    "A Concurrent Resolution urging the United States
  1  5 Department of Agriculture to fully investigate the
  1  6 impact of implementation of a country of origin
  1  7 labeling initiative upon this nation's system of
  1  8 producing and marketing agricultural commodities."
  1  9    #2.  By striking page 1, line 17 through page 2,
  1 10 line 10, and inserting the following:
  1 11    "WHEREAS, the initiative requiring the
  1 12 implementation of a system of country of origin
  1 13 labeling is supported by many persons but has raised
  1 14 concerns and questions by other persons, including the
  1 15 Iowa cattlemen's association and the national
  1 16 cattlemen's association, which remain supportive of
  1 17 some method of country of origin labeling; and
  1 18    WHEREAS, some of these concerns and questions
  1 19 relate to the costs involved in identifying, tracking,
  1 20 auditing, and verifying information necessary to
  1 21 implement the country of origin labeling initiative;
  1 22 NOW THEREFORE,
  1 23    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, THE HOUSE OF
  1 24 REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING, That the United States
  1 25 Department of Agriculture is urged to fully
  1 26 investigate the implementation of the country of
  1 27 origin labeling initiative prior to adopting
  1 28 regulations necessary to carry out those provisions of
  1 29 the 2002 Farm Bill, which to every extent feasible
  1 30 should include comprehensive public hearings to
  1 31 address the initiative's impacts upon this nation's
  1 32 system of producing and marketing agricultural
  1 33 commodities; and".  
  1 34 
  1 35 
  1 36                               
  1 37 JOHN P. KIBBIE
  1 38 SCR 13.501 80
  1 39 da/pj
     

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