Official Summaries

Defending Domestic Orange Juice Production Act of 2025

This bill requires finished pasteurized orange juice to contain at least 10% by weight of orange juice soluble solids, exclusive of the solids of any added optional sweetening ingredients. (Current regulations require at least 10.5% by weight of orange juice soluble solids.)

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 933 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 933

 To modify the minimum required weight of orange juice soluble solids.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 4, 2025

Mr. Scott Franklin of Florida (for himself, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mrs. 
   Cammack, Mr. Soto, Ms. Lee of Florida, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Bean of 
 Florida, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Mr. Frost, Mr. Gimenez, Ms. Lois Frankel of 
Florida, Mr. Webster of Florida, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mr. Rutherford, 
  Ms. Salazar, Mr. Mills, Mr. Moskowitz, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mrs. 
Cherfilus-McCormick, Mr. Dunn of Florida, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Steube, Mr. 
   Haridopolos, Mr. Donalds, Mrs. Luna, and Mr. Mast) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To modify the minimum required weight of orange juice soluble solids.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Defending Domestic Orange Juice 
Production Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. REVISION OF PASTEURIZED ORANGE JUICE STANDARDS.

    (a) In General.--Effective on the date of enactment of this Act, 
the standard of identity for ``pasteurized orange juice'', established 
in section 146.140 of title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (or any 
successor regulations), shall be deemed to require finished pasteurized 
orange juice to contain not less than 10.0 percent by weight of orange 
juice soluble solids, exclusive of the solids of any added optional 
sweetening ingredients.
    (b) Regulation Authority.--Nothing in this section shall be 
construed to limit the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services to promulgate regulations to amend the standard of identity 
for pasteurized orange juice.
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