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Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2014-09-18 00:00:00

Farm Protection Act of 2014 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to extend: (1) the term and any due date of a marketing assistance loan, and (2) the due date for repayment of farm ownership, operating, or emergency loans. Requires the extensions in cases where a farmer has sold, transferred, or delivered the commodity subject to the loan to a purchaser who has filed for bankruptcy prior to payment. Provides that the extensions shall last until after the bankruptcy case is closed or dismissed. Suspends the accrual of interest on the loans during the extension period.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2014-12-08 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Amends the United States Cotton Futures Act to exclude cotton future contracts involving cotton that is grown outside of the United States and tendered for delivery from coverage under the Act, including the requirement that the cotton be classified by the Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2013-01-24 00:00:00

Makes livestock indemnity payments (at 65% of an animal's market value) through FY2013 to eligible producers on farms that have incurred excess livestock death losses due to: (1) attacks by animals reintroduced into the wild by the federal government or protected by federal law, including wolves; or (2) adverse weather, including hurricanes, floods, blizzards, disease, wildfires, extreme heat, and extreme cold.

Establishes a livestock forage disaster program to provide one source for livestock forage disaster assistance for weather-related forage losses by combining: (1) the livestock forage assistance functions of the non insured crop disaster assistance program and the emergency assistance for livestock, honey bees, and farm-raised fish program; and (2) the livestock forage disaster program.

Provides assistance through FY2013 for forage losses: (1) due to drought on land that is native or improved pasture land with permanent vegetative cover or is planted to a crop planted specifically for the purpose of providing grazing for covered livestock; (2) on federally-managed rangeland due to a fire; and (3) due to weather-related conditions other than drought or fire on land that is native or improved pasture land with permanent vegetative cover, or is planted to a crop planted specifically for the purpose of providing grazing for covered livestock.

Provides funds through FY2013 for: (1) emergency assistance to eligible producers of livestock, honey bees, and farm-raised fish to aid in the reduction of losses due to disease, adverse weather, or other conditions, such as blizzards and wildfires; and (2) assistance to eligible orchardists and nursery tree growers that planted trees for commercial purposes but lost the trees as a result of a natural disaster, and to eligible orchardists and nursery tree growers that have a production history for commercial purposes on planted or existing trees but lost the trees as a result of a natural disaster (requires tree mortality to exceed 15%).

Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to provide coverages based on individual yields (other than for value-loss crops) under the non insured crop disaster assistance program equivalent to: (1) catastrophic risk protection, or (2) specified additional coverage.

Makes additional program coverage available at 50% to 65% of established yield and 100% of average market price. Reduces the premium for additional coverage by 50% for limited resource, beginning, and socially disadvantaged farmers.

Makes assistance available as soon as practicable to producers with 2012 losses of certain fruit crops in counties declared a disaster due to freeze or frost.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2013-02-14 00:00:00

Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to end agricultural direct payments beginning with the 2013 crop year.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2013-03-05 00:00:00

Crop Insurance Subsidy Reduction Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to reduce crop insurance premium subsidy rates.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2013-03-05 00:00:00

Forest Products Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to include in the definition of "biobased product" forest products that meet biobased content requirements, notwithstanding the market share the product holds, the product's age, or whether the market for the product is new or emerging.

Defines "forest product" as a product made from materials derived from the practice of forestry or the management of growing timber, including: (1) pulp, paper, paperboard, pellets, and wood products; and (2) any recycled products derived from forest materials.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2013-03-07 00:00:00

Dairy Augmentation for Increased Retail in Yogurt products (DAIRY) Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish tax-exempt dairy farm savings accounts to allow taxpayers engaged in the trade or business of dairy farming to use distributions from such accounts to pay business expenses; (2) allow a deduction from gross income for cash contributions to such accounts; and (3) set forth tax rules relating to, and penalties for, account distributions, excess contributions, and prohibited transactions.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2013-03-19 00:00:00

Dairy Income Fairness Act of 2013 - Establishes a dairy production margin protection program under which participating dairy operations are paid: (1) basic production margin protection program payments when production margins are less than threshold levels, and (2) supplemental production margin protection program payments if purchased by a participating dairy operation.

Provides for a transition period under which the dairy production margin protection program and the milk income loss program shall both be in existence and producers may participate in either program.

Establishes a dairy market stabilization program to assist in balancing the supply of milk with demand when participating dairy operations are experiencing low or negative operating margins.

Terminates the production margin protection and stabilization programs on December 31, 2017.

Repeals: (1) the dairy products price support program, (2) the milk income loss contract program, and (3) the dairy export incentive program.

Extends: (1) the dairy indemnity program, (2) the dairy forward pricing program, and (3) the dairy promotion and research program.

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to use a pre-hearing public information session to determine whether to conduct a formal hearing to consider alternative formulas for Class III milk product pricing.

Directs the Secretary to conduct hearings to: (1) analyze the implications of transitioning from a four-class system for milk products to a two-class system, (2) explore methods to improve signals for price discovery to allow dairy producers to better use risk management tools, and (3) assess whether a two-class competitive pay pricing system for milk products would be more or less transparent than the existing system.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2013-03-22 00:00:00

California Milk Marketing Order Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), upon the petition and approval of California dairy producers, to designate California as a separate federal milk marketing order.

Provides that if so designated, the order covering California shall have the right to reblend and distribute order receipts to recognize quota value.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2013-04-09 00:00:00

Dairy Pricing Reform Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to use a pre-hearing public information session to determine whether to conduct a formal hearing to consider alternative formulas for Class III milk product pricing.

Directs the Secretary to conduct hearings to: (1) analyze the implications of transitioning from a four-class system for milk products to a two-class system, (2) explore methods to improve signals for price discovery to allow dairy producers to better use risk management tools, and (3) assess whether a two-class competitive pay pricing system for milk products would be more or less transparent than the existing system.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2013-04-09 00:00:00

Growing Opportunities for Agriculture and Responding to Markets Act of 2013 - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a local farm business and market garden loan program to make available to eligible lending entities loans to develop revolving loan funds to assist: (1) producers in establishing local farm business projects or market garden projects that will produce fresh foods locally, and (2) local farm business projects and market garden projects to create local employment opportunities.

Sets forth program provisions.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2013-04-23 00:00:00

Agricultural Opportunities for Military Veterans Act - Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act regarding the value-added agricultural product market development grants program to: (1) include farmers and ranchers who are veterans among priority recipients, and (2) authorize program appropriations through FY2017.

Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 regarding the outreach and assistance to socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers program to: (1) include farmers and ranchers who are veterans, and (2) extend mandatory funding and authorization of appropriations through FY2017.

Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 regarding the beginning farmer and rancher development program to: (1) provide set-asides for beginning farmers and ranchers who are veterans, and (2) extend mandatory funding and authorization of appropriations through FY2017.

Amends the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish the position of Military Veterans Agricultural Liaison to: (1) provide returning veterans with information about beginning farmer training and agricultural vocational and rehabilitation programs; (2) provide veterans with information concerning the availability of, and eligibility requirements for, agricultural programs; and (3) advocate on behalf of veterans with USDA.

Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 regarding the conservation reserve transition incentive program to: (1) include farmers and ranchers who are veterans, and (2) authorize appropriations through FY2017.

Makes farmers and ranchers who are veterans eligible for increased payments under the environmental quality incentives program.

 Gives priority to beginning or socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers who are veterans for assistance set-asides under the environmental quality incentives program and the conservation stewardship program.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2013-04-24 00:00:00

Prairie Protection Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to reduce crop insurance assistance and noninsured crop disaster assistance for crops grown on native sod acreage converted to cropland for the first four years.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2013-04-25 00:00:00

Kosher and Halal Food Act of 2013 - Amends the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to: (1) provide for the increased purchase of Kosher and Halal food if such food is cost neutral as compared to food that is not from food manufacturers with a Kosher or Halal certification, and (2) modify the labeling of the commodities list under the emergency food assistance program to enable Kosher and Halal food bank operators to identify which commodities to obtain from local food banks.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2013-04-25 00:00:00

Healthy Food Financing Initiative - Amends the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 to establish in the Department of Agriculture (USDA) a Healthy Food Financing Initiative to provide assistance in order to: (1) improve access to healthy foods in underserved areas; (2) create and preserve quality jobs; and (3) revitalize low-income communities by providing loans and grants to eligible food retailers to overcome the higher costs and initial barriers to entry in underserved, urban, suburban, and rural areas.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2013-05-06 00:00:00

Rural Energy Investment Act of 2013 - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 regarding the biobased markets program to: (1) extend program funding through FY2018, (2) increase the number of categories of biobased products designated and individual biobased products eligible for preferred purchasing, and (3) provide for a program of biobased product education and promotion activities.

Amends the Rural Energy for America Program to: (1) extend Program funding through FY2018; (2) make nonprofit organizations eligible for assistance; (3) provide loan guarantees and grants to agricultural producers and rural small businesses for renewable energy system purchases, with a tiered loan and grant application process that reflects project cost; and (4) permit the combined amount of a grant and a loan guarantee to cover all eligible activity costs.

Extends funding through FY2018 for: (1) biorefinery assistance, (2) the biodiesel fuel education program, (3) biomass research and development, (4) the Rural Energy Self-Sufficiency Initiative, (5) the biomass crop assistance program, (6) the forest biomass for energy program, (7) the community wood energy program, and (8) the feedstock flexibility program for bioenergy producers.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2013-05-15 00:00:00

Suspends specified agricultural price support authorities under: (1) the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 with regard to covered commodities, peanuts, sugar, and milk; (2) the Agricultural Act of 1949 with regard to covered commodities, peanuts, sugar, and milk; and (3) a certain quota resolution with regard to wheat.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Native Americans
Date: 2013-07-25 00:00:00

Traditional Foods Nourishment Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to allow the donation to and serving of traditional food through a food service program at a public or nonprofit facility that primarily services Indians if the food service program operator takes specified measures to ensure the safe preparation, processing, and labeling of such food.

Includes wild game meat, fish, seafood, marine mammals, plants, and berries as traditional food.

States that the United States and an Indian tribe or tribal organization shall not be liable in any civil action for any damage, injury, or death caused to any person by the donation to or serving of traditional foods through a food service program.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2014-04-02 00:00:00

Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to limit the total amount of premium subsidy paid by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to a person or legal entity to $70,000 per crop year.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2014-12-04 00:00:00

Amends the United States Cotton Futures Act to exclude cotton future contracts involving cotton that is grown outside of the United States and tendered for delivery from coverage under the Act, including the requirement that the cotton be classified by the Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2015-02-11 00:00:00

Harvest Price Subsidy Reduction Act 

This bill amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to prohibit the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation from paying a premium subsidy for a crop insurance policy that is based on the actual market price of an agricultural commodity at the time of harvest.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2015-03-24 00:00:00

Farmer Flexibility Act 

This bill extends the final planting date established by the Risk Management Agency for certain federal crop insurance policies covering grain sorghum. To account for extreme weather conditions, the final planting date for policies with an existing date of April 5, 2015, is extended to April 26, 2015.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2015-03-26 00:00:00

Sugar Reform Act of 2015 

This bill revises the Department of Agriculture (USDA) sugar program to decrease price support levels and make other modifications.

The bill amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to decrease the rate for price support loans to processors of domestically grown sugarcane and sugar beets. The loan rate is the price level at which processors can take out loans.

The bill amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to require USDA to set the marketing allotments at a level appropriate to maintain adequate domestic supplies at reasonable prices. The allotments limit the amount of sugar that each processor may sell. The allotments may be suspended or modified based on: (1) the interests of consumers, workers, businesses, and agricultural producers; and (2) the relative competitiveness of domestically produced and imported foods containing sugar.

In setting import quotas necessary to comply with trade agreements, USDA must:

 set the quotas at no less than the minimum level necessary for compliance, adjust the quotas to provide adequate domestic supplies at reasonable prices, establish and adjust quotas so that the ratio of sugar stocks to total sugar use at the end of the year will be approximately 15.5% or the target necessary to prevent unreasonably high prices or forfeitures, and permit the temporary transfer of quotas between countries. The bill amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to repeal the Feedstock Flexibility Program for Bioenergy Producers, which requires USDA to purchase sugar from domestic processors and sell it to bioenergy producers for biofuel production.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2015-05-18 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on May 29. 2015. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Country of Origin Labeling Amendments Act of 2015

(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to repeal country of origin labeling requirements for beef, pork, and chicken. Country of origin labeling requirements are administered by the Department of Agriculture and require a retailer to inform consumers of the country of origin of a covered commodity.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2015-06-02 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on June 23, 2015. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

(Sec. 1) This bill amends the United States Cotton Futures Act to exclude cotton future contracts involving cotton that is grown outside of the United States and tendered for delivery from coverage under the Act, including the requirement that the cotton be classified by the Department of Agriculture.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2015-07-15 00:00:00

Feeding America through Farm Flexibility Act of 2015

This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to increase the number of acres on which agricultural producers are authorized to grow fruits and vegetables without a resulting reduction in the payment acres used to calculate price loss coverage and agriculture risk coverage payments.

The increases are permitted if the crops on the additional acres are grown for sale or donation in a food desert, which is a census tract that: (1) has a poverty rate of at least 20%, and (2) provides difficult access to a retail outlet that provides a wide variety of fruits and vegetables.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2015-09-10 00:00:00

Local Farm Vehicle Flexibility Act

This bill prohibits the Department of Transportation from terminating, reducing, limitoing, or otherwise interfering with the amount or timing of grants a state is otherwise eligible to receive as a result of any minimum standard or exemption the state gives a covered farm vehicle or the driver of such vehicle less stringent than federal requirements for commercial motor vehicles and drivers.

A covered farm vehicle means any motor vehicle meeting certain gross weight requirements and:

 registered or otherwise designated by a state for use in, or transportation activities related to, the operation of farms; operated by a farm or ranch owner or operator, or an employee or family member; transporting to or from a farm or ranch agricultural commodities, livestock, agricultural supplies, or machinery; and not used in the operations of a for-hire motor carrier, nor transporting materials requiring a placard. A covered farm vehicle may also be one meeting these requirements but operated pursuant to a crop share farm lease agreement, owned by a tenant under that agreement, and transporting the landlord's portion of the crops.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2015-10-26 00:00:00

Land-Grant Opportunity Act 

This bill amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to modify the formula that the Department of Agriculture uses to distribute funds for land-grant colleges and universities to provide additional funding for certain historically black colleges and universities.
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2015-10-28 00:00:00

Crop Insurance Restoration Act 

This bill amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to repeal changes regarding the Standard Reinsurance Agreement that were enacted as part of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015.

The bill eliminates provisions that: (1) require the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to renegotiate the Standard Reinsurance Agreement no later than December 31, 2016, and at least once every five years thereafter, and (2) establish an 8.9% cap on the overall rate of return for insurance providers under the agreement.

(The Standard Reinsurance Agreement is an agreement between USDA and the private companies that administer the federal crop insurance program. It specifies details such as administrative and operating expense reimbursements and risk sharing between USDA and the companies in the operation of the program.)
Topic: Agriculture — Subsidies to Farmers
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2015-11-05 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on September 16, 2016. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Emergency Citrus Disease Response Act of 2016

(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a full deduction in the current taxable year of the cost of replanting lost or damaged citrus plants. The taxpayer must own an equity interest of at least 50% in such replanted plants and may deduct costs paid or incurred through 2025.