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104TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION S. 847

To terminate the agricultural price support and production adjustment

programs for sugar, and for other purposes.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

MAY 23 (legislative day, MAY 15), 1995

Mr. GREGG (for himself, Mr. REID, Mr. COATS, Mr. BRADLEY, Mr. KYL, Mr.

COHEN, and Mr. LAUTENBERG) introduced the following bill; which was

read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and

Forestry

A BILL

To terminate the agricultural price support and production

adjustment programs for sugar, and for other purposes.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. TERMINATION OF PRICE SUPPORT AND PRO4 DUCTION ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS FOR

5 SUGAR BEETS AND SUGARCANE.

6 (a) TERMINATION OF PRICE SUPPORT PROGRAM.—

7 (1) PRICE SUPPORT LEVELS FOR DESIGNATED

8 NONBASIC AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES.—Section

9 201(a) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C.
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1 1446(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘milk, sugar beets,

2 and sugarcane’’ and inserting ‘‘and milk’’.

3 (2) SUGAR PRICE SUPPORT.—Section 206 of

4 the Act (7 U.S.C. 1446g) is repealed.

5 (3) BENEFITS.—Section 401(e) of the Act (7

6 U.S.C. 1421(e)) is amended—

7 (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘(1)’’;

8 and

9 (B) by striking paragraph (2).

10 (4) PERSONAL LIABILITY OF PRODUCERS FOR

11 DEFICIENCIES.—Section 405 of the Act (7 U.S.C.

12 1425) is amended—

13 (A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘(a)’’;

14 and

15 (B) by striking subsection (b).

16 (5) POWERS OF COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORA17 TION.—Section 5(a) of the Commodity Credit Cor18 poration Charter Act (7 U.S.C. 714c(a)) is amended

19 by inserting ‘‘(except for sugar beets and sugar20 cane)’’ after ‘‘agricultural commodities’’.

21 (b) TERMINATION OF ACREAGE ALLOTMENTS AND

22 MARKETING QUOTAS.—

23 (1) TERMINATION.—Part VII of subtitle B of

24 title III of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938

25 (7 U.S.C. 1359aa et seq.) is repealed.
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1 (2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section

2 344(f)(2) of the Act (7 U.S.C. 1344(f)(2)) is amend3 ed by striking ‘‘sugar cane for sugar, sugar beets for

4 sugar,’’.

5 (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS REGARDING PRE6 VENTION OF GOVERNMENT ACCUMULATION OF SUGAR.—

7 Section 902 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C.

8 1446g note) is amended—

9 (1) by striking subsection (a); and

10 (2) by redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as

11 subsections (a) and (b), respectively.

12 (d) CONFORMING AMENDMENT REGARDING SECTION

13 32 ACTIVITIES.—The second sentence of the first para14 graph of section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (7

15 U.S.C. 612c) is amended by inserting ‘‘(other than sugar

16 beets and sugarcane)’’ after ‘‘commodity’’ the last place

17 it appears.

18 (e) PROHIBITION ON SUBSEQUENT PROVISION OF

19 PRICE SUPPORT.—

20 (1) PROHIBITION.—After the effective date of

21 this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may not make

22 price support available, whether in the form of loans,

23 payments, purchases, or other operations, for crops

24 of sugar beets or sugarcane by using the funds of
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1 the Commodity Credit Corporation or under the au2 thority of any law.

3 (2) EXCEPTION.—Notwithstanding paragraph

4 (1), the Secretary shall settle any outstanding loans

5 under section 206 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7

6 U.S.C. 1446g) made before the effective date of this

7 Act.

8 (f) EFFECT ON EXISTING LIABILITY.—The amend9 ments made by this section shall not affect the liability

10 of any person under any provision of law as in effect be11 fore the effective date of this Act.

12 (g) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section and the amend13 ments made by this section shall become effective on Octo14 ber 1, 1996.

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