SWEET Act

Bill: 116-hr-3705
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Perry, Scott [R-PA-10]
Introduced: 2019-07-11
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit

Agricultural trade

Alternative and renewable resources

Food industry and services

Motor fuels

Tariffs
Latest action: action_date: 2019-08-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-07-11
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Saving Workers by Eliminating Economic Tampering Act or the SWEET Act </b></p> <p>This bill eliminates certain Department of Agriculture (USDA) sugar subsidy programs.</p> <p>Specifically, the bill eliminates (1) the price support loan program available to processors of domestically grown sugarcane and sugar beets, (2) the sugar marketing allotments and tariff-rate quotas that limit the quantities of domestically produced sugar that processors may sell and the sugar that may be imported under lower tariff rates, and (3) the feedstock flexibility program for bioenergy producers which operates to avoid loan forfeitures to the USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation by requiring USDA to purchase surplus sugar from domestic processors for resale to bioenergy producers.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3705 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 11, 2019 Mr. Perry (for himself, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania , Mr. Joyce of Pennsylvania , and Mr. Smucker ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To repeal the sugar program under the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 and certain other programs relating to sugar, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Saving Workers by Eliminating Economic Tampering Act or the SWEET Act . 2. Repeal of sugar program (a) In general Section 156 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 ( 7 U.S.C. 7272 ) is repealed. (b) Flexible marketing allotments for sugar and tariff rate quotas Part VII of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 ( 7 U.S.C. 1359aa et seq.) is repealed. (c) Feedstock flexibility program Section 9010 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 ( 7 U.S.C. 8110 ) is repealed.