A bill to require that the Secretary of Agriculture insure farmers of equitable opportunities to market their flue-cured tobacco, and for other purposes.

Summary

Amends the Tobacco Inspection Act to permit the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) require each tobacco grower to specify through which warehouse or person such grower intends to market tobacco; (2) issue marketing schedules allocating available sales opportunities to specified warehouses or persons; (3) prohibit unfair methods of competition involving the sale and purchase of grower's tobacco; (4) provide a method for making containers used in marketing tobacco uniform; and (5) require periodic reports and recordkeeping from persons in the tobacco industry describing the amount of tobacco planted, harvested, processed, sold, and purchased. Requires such information to be kept confidential. Establishes forfeitures for specified violations of the marketing schedule. Vests jurisdiction to review forfeiture rulings of the Secretary in the U.S. district courts.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

1. 16 September 1980

   Introduced

   Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 16 September 1980

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 16 September 1980

  Open at official source

Sponsors

• Sen. Stone, Richard (Dick) [D-FL] · D · Sponsor
• · ssaf00 · Standing

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.