§ 4501. Congressional findings and declaration of policy

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1983

   Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983

   Pub. L. 98–180 title I § 110 · 97 Stat. 1128

   Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 4501

   Pub. L. 98–180, title I, § 110, Nov. 29, 1983, 97 Stat. 1136

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 98–180, title I, § 110, Nov. 29, 1983, 97 Stat. 1136

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 110. findings and declaration of policy (a) Congress finds that— (1) dairy products are basic foods that are a valuable part of the human diet; (2) the production of dairy products plays a significant role in the Nation’s economy, the milk from which dairy products are manufactured is produced by thousands of milk producers, and dairy products are consumed by millions of people throughout the United States; (3) dairy products must be readily available and marketed efficiently to ensure that the people of the United States receive adequate nourishment; (4) the maintenance and expansion of existing markets for dairy products are vital to the welfare of milk producers and those concerned with marketing, using, and producing dairy products, as well as to the general economy of the Nation; and (5) dairy products move in interstate and foreign commerce, and dairy products that do not move in such channels of commerce directly burden or affect interstate commerce of dairy products. (b) It, therefore, is declared to be the policy of Congress that it is in the public interest to authorize the establishment, through the exercise of the powers provided herein, of an orderly procedure for financing (through assessments on all milk produced in the United States for commercial use) and carrying out a coordinated program of promotion designed to strengthen the dairy industry’s position in the marketplace and to maintain and expand domestic and foreign markets and uses for fluid milk and dairy products produced in the United States. Nothing in this subtitle may be construed to provide for the control of production or otherwise limit the right of individual milk producers to produce milk.

2. 2002

   Pub. L. 107–171 title I § 1505(h)(1) · 116 Stat. 134

   1. Inserted · 7 U.S.C. § 4501(b)

      Pub. L. 107–171 inserted “and on imported dairy products” after “commercial use”

   2. Struck and inserted · 7 U.S.C. § 4501(b)

      Pub. L. 107–171 struck out “produced in the United States” after “fluid milk and dairy products” in first sentence and inserted “or the right of any person to import dairy products” before period at end of second sentence

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 107–171 inserted “and on imported dairy products” after “commercial use” and struck out “produced in the United States” after “fluid milk and dairy products” in first sentence and inserted “or the right of any person to import dairy products” before period at end of second sentence.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (1) in section 110(b) (7 U.S.C. 4501(b))— (A) in the first sentence— (i) by inserting after “commercial use” the following: “and on imported dairy products”; and (ii) by striking “products produced in the United States.” and inserting “products.”; and (B) in the second sentence, by inserting after “produce milk” the following: “or the right of any person to import dairy products”; and

3 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision