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104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2787
To repeal the price support programs and related acreage allotment and
marketing quota programs for agricultural commodities, to repeal mar-
keting orders issued to regulate the handling of certain agricultural
commodities, and to establish a special fund to assist farmers whose
annual net income from all sources is less than $30,000.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
DECEMBER 15, 1995
Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Agriculture
A BILL
To repeal the price support programs and related acreage
allotment and marketing quota programs for agricultural
commodities, to repeal marketing orders issued to regu-
late the handling of certain agricultural commodities,
and to establish a special fund to assist farmers whose
annual net income from all sources is less than $30,000.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. REPEAL OF PRICE SUPPORT, ACREAGE ALLOT-
MENT, AND MARKETING QUOTA AUTHORI-
TIES OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
(a) PRICE SUPPORT UNDER AGRICULTURAL ACT OF
1949.—The Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1421 et
seq.) is repealed.
(b) PRICE SUPPORT AUTHORITY
OF COMMODITY
CREDIT CORPORATION.—Section 5 of the Commodity
Credit Corporation Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 714c) is
amended by striking subsection (a).
(c) 
ACREAGE
ALLOTMENTS
AND
MARKETING
QUOTAS.—Title III of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of
1938 (7 U.S.C. 1301 et seq.) is repealed.
(d) PROHIBITION ON FUTURE PROVISION OF PRICE
SUPPORT.—For any agricultural commodity for the 1996
and subsequent crop years, the Secretary of Agriculture
may not make price support available, whether in the form
of loans, payments, purchases, or other operations, by
using the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation.
(e) LIABILITY
OF PRODUCERS.—The amendments
made by this section shall not affect the liability of any
person under any provision of law as in effect before the
effective date of this section.
(f) EFFECT ON PRIOR CROPS.—The amendments
made by this section shall not affect the authority of the
Secretary of Agriculture to carry out a price support or
production adjustment program for any of the 1991
through 1995 crops of an agricultural commodity estab-
lished under a provision of law in effect immediately before
the date of the enactment of this Act.
SEC. 2. REPEAL OF AUTHORITY TO ISSUE MARKETING OR-
DERS AND EXISTING MARKETING ORDERS.
(a) REPEAL.—Part 2 of title I of the Agricultural Ad-
justment Act (7 U.S.C. 608–624), reenacted with amend-
ments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of
1937, is repealed.
(b) EFFECT OF REPEAL.—Immediately upon the en-
actment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall ter-
minate all marketing agreements and marketing authori-
ties issued pursuant to the authority provided in the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by
the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937.
SEC. 3. FARMERS SUPPORT FUND.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is hereby established
on the books of the Treasury an account to be known as
the ‘‘Farmers Support Fund’’, which shall consist of such
amounts as are authorized for and appropriated to the
fund.
(b) USE OF FUND.—In such amounts as are provided
in advance in appropriation Acts, the Secretary of Agri-
culture shall use amounts in the Farmers Support Fund
to provide financial assistance to persons who are actively
engaged in the production of eligible agricultural commod-
ities and whose annual net income from all sources is less
than $30,000.
(c) PERSON DEFINED.—The Secretary shall issue
regulations defining the term ‘‘person’’ as used in this sec-
tion, which shall conform, to the extent practicable, to the
regulations defining the term ‘‘person’’ issued under sec-
tion 1001 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C.
1308).
(d) ELIGIBLE AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES.—In
this section, the term ‘‘eligible agricultural commodities’’
means those agricultural commodities for which price sup-
port was available under the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7
U.S.C. 1421 et seq.) for the crops years 1991 through
1995.
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is
authorized to be appropriated to the Farmers Support
Fund $200,000,000.
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