Agriculture Competition Enhancement Act of 2001
Latest action · May 15, 2001 Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedApr 4, 2001
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Requires such a purchaser filing a premerger notice under the Clayton Act to also file with the Secretary of Agriculture. Provides for: (1) public comment; and (2) review by the Secretary respecting such action's anticompetitive effects.
Subjects such actions to specified enforcement provisions of the Clayton Act.
Directs the Attorney General to establish in the Department of Justice an Office of Special Counsel for Agriculture to handle agricultural antitrust issues.
Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study respecting whether: (1) the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyard Administration needs additional resources to monitor and investigate the competitive implications of meat packing industry practices; and (2) disparities exist in the Administration's authority respecting the poultry, meat, and pork industries.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 4, 2001 to Sep 13, 2001; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IN | Baron P. Hill | Original | Apr 4, 2001 |
| R-IA | Jim Nussle | Jun 28, 2001 | |
| R-MO | Jo Ann Emerson | Sep 13, 2001 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Apr 4, 2001 |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred Apr 4, 2001 |
| Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee | Referred Apr 23, 2001 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 15, 2001Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
- Apr 23, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
- Apr 4, 2001Introduced in House
- Apr 4, 2001Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 107-18 | REGROWING RURAL AMERICA THROUGH VALUE-ADDED AGRICULTURE68 pages | Small Business Committee | Jul 17, 2001 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To prohibit excessive concentration resulting from mergers among certain purchasers, processors, and sellers of livestock, poultry, and basic agricultural commodities; to require the Attorney General to establish an Office of Special Counsel for Agriculture, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Agriculture Competition Enhancement Act of 2001
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commerce.
- Administrative procedure
- Agribusiness
- Agricultural industries
- Agricultural prices
- Agriculture and Food
- Antitrust law
- Commerce
- Competition
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Corporate mergers
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Justice
- Economic concentration
- Economic impact statements
- Economics and Public Finance
- Executive reorganization
- Farm income
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Government attorneys
- Government Operations and Politics
- Law
- Livestock industry
- Marketing of farm produce
- Meat packing industry
- Monopolies
- Poultry industry
- Predatory pricing
- Produce trade
- Wholesale trade
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 4, 2001Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
