EAT Healthy America Act

Bill: 110-hr-1600
Sponsor: Rep. Cardoza, Dennis A. [D-CA-18]
Introduced: 2007-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agricultural labor
Agricultural research
Agriculture in foreign trade
Air pollution control
Alternative energy sources
Animals
Biomass energy
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Farm lands
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Grassland ecology
Habitat conservation
Housing and Community Development
Non-native species
Nutrition
Pest control
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Science, Technology, Communications
Trees
Water Resources Development
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: 
Equitable Agriculture Today for a Healthy America Act or 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) the conservation loan guarantee program; (12) agricultural trade; (13) invasive pests and diseases; (14) nutrition; (15) agricultural research; (16) renewable energy, including crop biomass waste; and (17) farm labor housing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2007-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services, 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: 2007-03-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services, 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: 2007-03-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services, 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: 2007-03-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services, 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: 2007-03-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services, 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: 2007-03-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services, 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: 2007-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Introduced in House