EAT Healthy America Act

Bill: 109-hr-6193
Sponsor: Rep. Pombo, Richard W. [R-CA-11]
Introduced: 2006-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Agribusiness
Agricultural conservation
Agricultural education
Agricultural extension work
Agricultural pollution
Agricultural research
Agricultural subsidies
Agricultural wastes
Agriculture in foreign trade
Air pollution control
Alternative energy sources
Animals
Antitrust law
Biomass energy
Block grants
Building construction
California
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Commerce
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Conservation easements
Construction costs
Cost effectiveness
Countervailing duties
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Disaster relief
Dumping
Economic research
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Endangered species
Energy
Energy crops
Energy facilities
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Executive reorganization
Exports
Farm lands
Federal aid to air pollution control
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to transportation
Federal employees
Federal installations
Food safety
Food stamps
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign trade promotion
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Grassland ecology
Habitat conservation
Hawaii
Higher education
Horticulture
Imports
Infrastructure
Integrated pest management
Intellectual property
Intermodal transportation
International competitiveness
Law
Marketing of farm produce
Non-native species
Nutrition
Nuts
Patents
Pest control
Pesticide regulation
Pesticides
Pests
Plant breeding
Plants
Policy sciences
Produce trade
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Refuse as fuel
Research centers
Research grants
Restoration ecology
Revegetation
Scholarships
School lunch program
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Soil conservation
Solar energy
Student loan funds
Technological innovations
Technology transfer
Terrorism
Trade negotiations
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation engineering
Trees
Vegetables
Water Resources Development
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: 
Equitable Agriculture Today for a Healthy America Act or the EAT Healthy America Act - Amends provisions with respect to: (1) specialty crops; (2) the tree assistance program; (3) the conservation reserve program; (4) the wetlands reserve program; (5) the farmland protection program; (6) the grassland reserve program; (7) the wildlife habitat incentive program; (8) the environmental qualities incentives program; (9) air quality improvement; (10) integrated pest management initiative; (11) native plant habitat restoration; (12) agricultural trade; (13) invasive pests and diseases; (14) nutrition; (15) agricultural research; and (16) renewable energy, including crop biomass waste.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-10-27
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2006-10-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs.
action_date: 2006-10-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture .
action_date: 2006-10-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2006-10-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research.
action_date: 2006-10-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman .
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Resources, 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: 2006-09-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Resources, 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: 2006-09-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Resources, 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: 2006-09-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Resources, 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: 2006-09-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Resources, 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: 2006-09-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Resources, 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: 2006-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Introduced in House