Stop Taxpayer-Funded Alcohol Marketing Act

Bill: 115-hr-2731
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Russell, Steve [R-OK-5]
Introduced: 2017-05-25
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural marketing and promotion

Alcoholic beverages

Appropriations

Department of Agriculture

Executive agency funding and structure
Latest action: action_date: 2017-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-05-25
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Stop Taxpayer-Funded Alcohol Marketing Act </b></p> <p>This bill amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to prohibit the Department of Agriculture (USDA) from awarding value-added agricultural product market development grants to support the marketing of beer, wine, distilled spirits, hard cider, or other alcohol products. The bill also rescinds $8 million of the unobligated funds that were previously provided to USDA for the grants. </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2731 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 25, 2017 Mr. Russell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To amend the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to eliminate the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to make value-added agricultural product market development grants to support the development, production, or marketing of alcoholic beverages and to rescind a portion of the Commodity Credit Corporation funds made available for such grants.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Stop Taxpayer-Funded Alcohol Marketing Act . 2. Value-added agricultural product market development grants (a) Exclusion of alcohol products from definition Section 231(a)(5) of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 ( 7 U.S.C. 1632a(a)(5) ) is amended by adding below subparagraph (B) the following: The term value-added agricultural product does not include beer, wine, distilled spirits, hard cider, or other alcohol product. . (b) Rescission Of the funds made available under section 231(b)(7)(A) of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 ( 7 U.S.C. 1632a(b)(7)(A) ) to the Secretary of Agriculture to make value-added agricultural product market development grants and unobligated as of the date of the enactment of this Act, $8,000,000 is hereby rescinded.