United States Specialty Crop Export Opportunities Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1706
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2007-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural education
Agriculture in foreign trade
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Agriculture
Department of Homeland Security
Developing countries
Education
Executive reorganization
Export controls
Export finance
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal employees
Federal-state relations
Federally-guaranteed loans
Food safety
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Import restrictions
International Affairs
Marketing of farm produce
Minorities
Minority education
Pest control
Plants
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Subsidies
Trade negotiations
Vegetables
Weeds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: 
 United States Specialty Crop Export Opportunities Act of 2007 - Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to regulate plants, plant products, biological control organisms, and noxious weeds for export purposes. 
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) coordinate fruit and vegetable market analyses with the private sector and the Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service; and (2) make publicly available on an Internet website the status of all export petitions and an explanation of the sanitary or phytosanitary issues associated with each pending export petition, and information on the import requirements of foreign countries for fruits and vegetables. 
 
Amends the Homeland Security Act to repeal the transfer of agricultural import and entry inspection functions from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
 
Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) within the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service the international agricultural inspection program to carry out import and entry agricultural inspections; (2) a federal-state agricultural inspection communications system; (3) the International Trade Inspection Advisory Committee; and (4) a special export credit guarantee program.
 
Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to extend: (1) the promotion of agricultural exports to emerging markets program; and (2) the E. (Kika) de la Garza Agricultural Fellowship program.


Legislative actions:
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 Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-04-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
action_date: 2007-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E654-655)
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Homeland Security, 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: 2007-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Homeland Security, 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: 2007-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Homeland Security, 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: 2007-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Homeland Security, 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: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House