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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-357
MEAT AND POULTRY SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR ACT OF
2022
JUNE 7, 2022.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, from the Committee on Agriculture,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 7606]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 7606) to establish the Office of the Special Investigator for
Competition Matters within the Department of Agriculture, having
considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment
and recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Meat and Poultry Special Investigator Act of 2022.
SEC. 2. OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR FOR COMPETITION MATTERS.
(a) IN GENERAL.-The Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 is
amended by inserting after section 216 (7 U.S.C. 6916) the following:
SEC. 217. OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR FOR COMPETITION MATTERS.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.-There is established in the Department an office, to be
known as the 'Office of the Special Investigator for Competition Matters' (referred
to in this section as the 'Office').
(b) SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR FOR COMPETITION MATTERS.-The Office shall be head-
ed by the Special Investigator for Competition Matters (referred to in this section
as the 'Special Investigator'), who shall be a senior career employee appointed by
the Secretary.
(c) DUTIES.-The Special Investigator shall-
(1) use all available tools, including subpoenas, to investigate and prosecute
violations of the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 (7 U.S.C. 181 et seq.), by
packers and live poultry dealers with respect to competition and trade practices
in the food and agriculture sector;
(2) serve as a Department liaison to, and act in consultation with, the De-
partment of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission with respect to competi-
tion and trade practices in the food and agricultural sector;
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