Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act of 2021
Latest action · Nov 17, 2021 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
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.
- IntroducedNov 17, 2021
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act of 2021
This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to take various actions to address transparency in pricing and contract terms in the cattle industry.
Among these requirements, USDA must (1) establish regional minimum percentages of cattle that meat packers must procure through negotiated purchases or negotiated grid purchases (i.e., transactions where the price is known and negotiated at the time of the transaction), and (2) maintain a publicly available catalog of contracts offered by meat packers to livestock producers for the purchase of fed cattle.
Cosponsors 17
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Nov 17, 2021 to Mar 1, 2022; 10 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NM | Ben Ray Luján | Original | Nov 17, 2021 |
| R-LA | Bill Cassidy | Original | Nov 17, 2021 |
| R-IA | Chuck Grassley | Original | Nov 17, 2021 |
| R-MS | Cindy Hyde-Smith | Original | Nov 17, 2021 |
| D-MT | Jon Tester | Original | Nov 17, 2021 |
| R-IA | Joni Ernst | Original | Nov 17, 2021 |
| R-IN | Mike Braun | Original | Nov 17, 2021 |
| D-OR | Ron Wyden | Original | Nov 17, 2021 |
| R-MT | Steve Daines | Original | Nov 17, 2021 |
| D-MN | Tina Smith | Original | Nov 17, 2021 |
| D-IL | Richard J. Durbin | Nov 18, 2021 | |
| D-NM | Martin Heinrich | Nov 19, 2021 | |
| D-GA | Raphael G. Warnock | Dec 17, 2021 | |
| D-CT | Richard Blumenthal | Jan 10, 2022 | |
| D-NY | Kirsten E. Gillibrand | Jan 11, 2022 | |
| R-WY | Cynthia M. Lummis | Feb 1, 2022 | |
| R-MO | Josh Hawley | Mar 1, 2022 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee | Referred Nov 17, 2021 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 17, 2021Introduced in Senate
- Nov 17, 2021Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S2204, S2205 | Jon Tester D-MT, Maria Cantwell D-WA | Apr 28, 2022 |
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 2
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. 117-32 | AN EXAMINATION OF PRICE DISCREPANCIES, TRANSPARENCY, AND ALLEGED UNFAIR PRACTICES IN CATTLE MARKETS182 pages | Agriculture Committee | Apr 27, 2022 |
| Serial No. 117-26 | TO REVIEW THE STATE OF THE RURAL ECONOMY WITH AGRICULTURE SECRETARY TOM VILSACK241 pages | Agriculture Committee | Jan 20, 2022 |
Related bills 4
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 543 | Cattle Market Transparency Act of 2021 | Related bill | Mar 2, 2021 |
| HR 3766 | Optimizing the Cattle Market Act of 2021 | Related bill | Jul 7, 2021 |
| HR 5609 | Cattle Contract Library Act of 2021 | Related bill | Dec 9, 2021 |
| HR 5992 | Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act of 2021 | Identical bill | Dec 2, 2021 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to establish a cattle contract library, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act of 2021
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 17, 2021Introduced in Senate
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.
