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This bill, the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression Act, aims to prevent states and local governments from interfering with the production and distribution of agricultural products in interstate commerce. The key provisions are: 1) It defines "agricultural products" as per the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946. 2) It prohibits state or local governments from imposing any standards or conditions on the pre-harvest production of agricultural products sold in interstate commerce, if the production occurs in another state and the standards are in addition to federal and the state/local laws where the production occurs. 3) It provides a federal cause of action for any person or entity affected by state/local regulations on the sale of agricultural products in interstate commerce, allowing them to seek to invalidate the regulation and recover economic damages. The court must issue a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of the regulation unless the state/local government can prove they are likely to prevail on the merits and the injunction would cause them irreparable harm. The overall intent is to limit the ability of states and localities to impose their own requirements on agricultural products produced in other states and sold across state lines.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/2019/all-info