Healthy Farms, Foods, and Fuels Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6064
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2006-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agricultural credit
Agricultural extension work
Agricultural research
Agricultural subsidies
Agricultural wastes
Air pollution control
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Animals
Authorization
Biomass energy
Birds
Carbon cycle
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional reporting requirements
Conservation easements
Cost effectiveness
Crop insurance
Department of Agriculture
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Endangered species
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy crops
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Families
Farm lands
Farmers
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Feedstock
Finance and Financial Sector
Fishes
Food relief
Food stamps
Forest conservation
Forest ecology
Forest management
Forest products
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Grants-in-aid
Grassland ecology
Grazing
Habitat conservation
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Integrated pest management
Land transfers
Landowners
Landscape protection
Law
Leases
Licenses
Marketing of farm produce
Migratory bird conservation
Minorities
Minority education
Native Americans
Non-native species
Nonprofit organizations
Nutrition
Open space lands
Organic farming
Outdoor recreation
Performance measurement
Pest control
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Refuse as fuel
Research and development
Restoration ecology
Right of property
Riparian ecology
School lunch program
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Soil conservation
Soil erosion
Sports and Recreation
Suburbs
Technology transfer
Trees
Urban affairs
Urban forestry
Vegetables
WIC program
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Water pollution control
Water quality
Watersheds
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-13
text: 
Healthy Farms, Foods, and Fuels Act of 2006 - Extends: (1) the conservation reserve program; (2) the wetlands reserve program; (3) the conservation security program; (4) the grassland reserve program; (5) the environmental quality incentives program; (6) the wildlife habitat incentive program; (7) the agricultural management assistance program; and (8) the organic agriculture research and extension initiative.
 
Establishes: (1) the cooperative conservation partnership initiative; (2) the suburban and community forestry and open space program; (3) an integrated pest management initiative; and (4) a conservation initiative for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers. 
 
Revises: (1) the farmland protection program; (2) funding for the healthy forests reserve program; and (3) the national organic certification and transition cost share program.
 
Makes permanent funding available for: (1) the education grant program for Hispanic-serving institutions; and (2) the fresh fruit and vegetable program.
 
Revises and extends the biorefinery development program.
 
Extends: (1) the energy audit and renewable energy development program; (2) the renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements program; (3) the Department of Agriculture bioenergy program; (4) biomass research and development; and (5) carbon cycle research. 
 
Extends: (1) the community food project grant program; (2) the farm-to-cafeteria program; (3) WIC farmers' market nutrition program; (4) the senior farmers' market nutrition program; and (5) farmers' market promotion program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research.
action_date: 2006-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-13
text: Introduced in House