Farm, Nutrition, and Community Investment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2144
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agricultural education
Agricultural estimating and reporting
Agricultural extension work
Agricultural pollution
Agricultural prices
Agricultural research
Agricultural subsidies
Agricultural wastes
Agriculture in foreign trade
Air pollution control
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
American Samoa
Animal diseases
Animals
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Biomass energy
Block grants
Capital gains tax
Carbon cycle
Cellulose
Chesapeake Bay
Civil service retirement
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Commerce
Conservation easements
Crop insurance
Dairy industry
Day care
Delaware
Department of Agriculture
Department of Defense
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electric power production
Electric utilities
Elementary and secondary education
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy crops
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Exports
Families
Farm lands
Farmers
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Federal employees
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Federally-guaranteed loans
Food relief
Food stamps
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign trade promotion
Forest conservation
Forestry
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Grassland ecology
Great Lakes
Groundwater
Habitat conservation
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Hunting
Hydroelectric power
Immigrants
Immigration
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Livestock
Marketing of farm produce
Marketing orders
Maryland
Methane
Military pay
Minorities
Native Americans
Natural gas
Nature conservation
Nutrition
Oils and fats
Open space lands
Organic farming
Outdoor recreation
Pest control
Pesticides
Plant breeding
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Puerto Rico
Refuse as fuel
Research and development
Research grants
Scholarships
School districts
School lunch program
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Social Welfare
Solar energy
Sports and Recreation
Student loan funds
Sustainable agriculture
Tax exclusion
Taxation
Vegetables
Virginia
WIC program
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Water pollution control
Watersheds
Weather
Welfare eligibility
Welfare work participation
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Farm, Nutrition, and Community Investment Act of 2007 - Establishes the farm and ranch profitability grant program.
 
Extends the market access program.
 
Revises (and extends certain of) the following conservation programs: (1) the environmental quality incentives program; (2) the conservation innovation grant program; (3) the cost share and incentive payment program; (4) state performance incentives; (5) the wildlife habitat incentive program; (6) the conservation reserve program; and (7) the wetlands reserve program.
 
Establishes: (1) the cooperative conservation partnership initiative; (2) the comprehensive conservation planning pilot program; (3) the farmland protection program; (4) the debt for agricultural easements program; (5) the conservation risk management pilot program; (6) the (Delmarva) conservation corridor demonstration program; (7) biomass and biorefinery research and development programs; (8) the climate carbon cycle, renewable energy, and climate change research program; (9) the farm and ranch energy efficiency rebate program; (10) the alternative use for biofuel byproducts research program; and (11) the farmers' market pilot program for the disabled.
 
Authorizes a conservation loan guarantee program.
 
Revises farmland protection policy provisions.
 
Requires an electric utility to provide net metering service to a requesting electric consumer.
 
Extends the: (1) fresh fruit and vegetable program; (2) Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) farmers' market nutrition program; (3) senior farmers' market nutrition program; and (4) farmers' market promotion program.
 
Provides for Department of Agriculture and Department of Defense (DOD) procurement of locally produced agricultural products.
 
Revises healthy forests reserve program provisions.
 
Establishes the community forest and open space conservation program.
 
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 with respect to: (1) standard deduction increases; (2) combat pay and retirement account exclusions; (3) minimum benefits; (4) countable resource increases; (5) work requirements; (6) program reauthorization; (7) program administration; (8) cash payment pilot projects; (9) block grants for Puerto Rico and American Samoa; (10) legal immigrant eligibility; (11) the emergency food assistance program; (12) the commodity supplemental food program; and (13) community food project competitive grants.
 
Revises (and extends certain of) the following programs under the Federal Crop Insurance Act: (1) the agricultural management assistance program; (2) the adjusted gross revenue insurance pilot program; (3) crop insurance incentives for beginning farmers; and (4) organic crop provisions.
 
Extends the: (1) national dairy market loss payment program; (2) dairy export incentive program; (3) dairy indemnity program; and (4) dairy research program.
 
Sets the FY2008 minimum price for Class 1 milk under a federal marketing order at $15.58 per hundredweight. 
 
Revises: (1) federal milk marketing order provisions; and (2) dairy reporting provisions. 
 
Establishes a federal dairy education loan forgiveness program.
 
Establishes the: (1) national organic agriculture conversion and stewardship incentives program; and (2) national organic certification cost share program.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude gains on the sale of development rights or conservation easements on agricultural land for conservation purposes to qualifying entities.
 
Establishes: (1) a research program to improve specialty crop and livestock survivability; (2) a national clean plant network; and (3) an early pest detection and surveillance improvement program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, and Ways and Means, 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: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, and Ways and Means, 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: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, and Ways and Means, 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: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, and Ways and Means, 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: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, and Ways and Means, 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: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House