zli12321/Bills huggingface dataset:
Sewage Sludge in Food Production Consumer Notification Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Egg Products Inspection Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act, and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to deem as adulterated food that is: (1) produced on land on which sewage sludge was applied; (2) derived from poultry that were raised, or that consumed animal feed produced, on such land; and (3) derived from livestock that grazed, or consumed animal feed produced, on such land. Permits exceptions if: (1) the application of sewage sludge ended more than one year before producing food, raising poultry, producing animal feed, or grazing livestock; (2) the food labeling includes notice that the product was produced on such land; or (3) a sign providing such notice is posted in close proximity to the product for those foods generally offered for sale without labeling. States that nothing in this Act shall be construed to modify the prohibition on the use of sewage sludge in organic food production under the National Organic Program of the Department of Agriculture.

Date: 2009-01-06
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Farming Flexibility Act of 2009 - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to limit the pilot project permitting the planting of cucumbers, green peas, lima beans, pumpkins, snap beans, sweet corn, and tomatoes grown for processing on base acres to crop year 2009. (Under current law such pilot program is authorized through crop year 2012.) Provides that: (1) as of crop year 2010 producers on a farm may reduce the base acres for any covered commodity if such acres are used for the production of fruits or vegetables for processing; (2) such acres devoted to fruits or vegetables shall be included in base acres for the covered commodity for the subsequent crop year unless the producers on the farm make the election to produce fruits and vegetables for the subsequent crop year; and (3) if a farm's base acres are recalculated the production of fruits or vegetables shall be considered to be the same as the planting, prevented planting, or production of the covered commodity.

Date: 2009-02-03
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Keeping America's Food Safe Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require: (1) certification of any food safety laboratory or a sampling service that is analyzing, testing, or collecting samples of imported food; and (2) such laboratories or services to submit to the Secretary of Health and Human Services the results of all tests conducted on behalf of an importer.Sets forth civil penalties for: (1) an importer that knowingly engages in the falsification of test results submitted to the Secretary; and (2) a laboratory or service that knowingly submits false test results to the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to establish a certification program to ensure that imported food meets the food safety standards applied to food produced in the United States.Prohibits food from being permitted entry into the United States from a foreign facility in a foreign country unless there are certifications from the facility and country, except if the certification is not needed for the Secretary's evaluation of whether the facility's or country's standards are at least equivalent to standards applicable to food produced in the United States.Sets forth certification requirements for foreign countries.Requires the Secretary to develop and maintain websites on: (1) food safety issues; and (2) the development of school curricula regarding food safety issues.Establishes whistle-blower's protections.Revises the definition of "responsible party" to include an establishment that analyzes or tests samples of food for consumption in the United to States to ensure its safety. Requires a responsible party to notify the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) within 24 hours about test results that suggest that an article of food is reportable food, irrespective of whether the party subsequently determines that such article isn't reportable food.Authorizes the Secretary to request and, in the absence of voluntary compliance, to order an establishment to recall food that has been distributed and that presents a risk of illness, injury, or gross consumer deception when necessary to protect the public health.

Date: 2009-02-11
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Select Agent Program and Biosafety Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends the Public Health Service Act and the Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection Act of 2002 to reauthorize appropriations for the Select Agent Program, which lists and controls biological agents and toxins that have the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety. Requires appropriate training of individuals handling or using such agents and toxins. Includes the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) among the federal agencies limited in the disclosure of information related to listed agents or toxins.Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to review and make recommendations for improving the Select Agent Program.Sets forth additional factors that the Secretary must consider in determining whether to list an agent or toxin, including whether the agent or toxin is endemic to the United States.Requires the Secretary to issue guidance on inventorying and monitoring listed biological agents.Directs the Attorney General to issue guidance regarding the scope of the statutory definition of "variola virus." Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop guidelines for how laboratories and laboratory personnel that do not regularly test for listed agents and toxins may be rapidly accessed and utilized during emergencies; and (2) evaluate national needs of, and oversight of, high containment biological laboratories.Provides for the development of minimum standards for laboratory biosafety and biosecurity training for relevant personnel of high containment biological laboratories.Requires the Secretary to establish a Biological Laboratory Incident Reporting System.

Date: 2009-02-26
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Health
Family Farm Preservation Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income gain from the sale or exchange of qualified farmland development rights to a tax-exempt conservation organization. Defines "qualified farmland development rights" as a restriction limiting farmland to use as a farm for farming purposes or for exclusively conservation purposes.

Date: 2009-03-11
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Taxation
Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to terminate marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments for mohair producers.

Date: 2009-06-17
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Farm Service Agency, to use specified funds under the Act of August 24, 1935 to compensate poultry producers whose production contracts were terminated or not renewed during the period beginning on July 1, 2008, through the date of the enactment of this Act, because of processing plant closure and other cost cutting measures undertaken by a poultry processing company in bankruptcy protection.

Date: 2009-07-09
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Dairy Fairness Act of 2009 - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to annually index for inflation payments under the milk income loss contract program.

Date: 2009-07-09
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Trans Fat Truth in Labeling Act of 2009 - Directs the Commissioner of Food and Drugs (FDA) to promulgate a final regulation revising federal nutrition labeling regulations to require the label of a food that has less than .5 grams of trans fat per serving to express that information with an asterisk or other notation instead of expressing the trans fat content as zero when the trans fat content of such food is declared in the nutrition information on the label or in the labeling of the food.

Date: 2009-07-23
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Agricultural Credit Act of 2010 - Amends the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 to authorize appropriations through FY2015 for state agricultural loan mediation programs.

Date: 2009-07-31
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to promulgate a rule: (1) to improve the daytime and nighttime visibility of agricultural equipment operating on public roads; and (2) that establishes minimum lighting and marking standards for such equipment. Requires the Secretary to review and revise such standards at least once every five years to reflect the latest edition of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) S279 standard published by the American Society of Agriculture and Biological Engineers entitled "Lighting and Marking of Agricultural Equipment on Highways".

Date: 2009-10-06
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Transportation and public works
Save Our Dairy Farmers Act of 2009 - Establishes the temporary minimum price for Class II and Class III milk under federal milk marketing orders as: (1) $17.23 per hundredweight for Class II milk; and (2) $16.81 per hundredweight for Class III milk. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to report to Congress regarding dairy price stabilization options.

Date: 2009-10-27
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to state that: (1) the delivery by a producer or association of producers of raw milk to a handler under a federal milk marketing order shall be deemed to occur when the raw milk is received at the producer's farm, whether directly by the handler or by a transportation agent acting on behalf of the handler; and (2) the producer may not be charged for transportation-related costs, including hauling fees, stop fees, and fuel surcharges, incurred by a handler or the transportation agent after the raw milk leaves the farm.

Date: 2009-11-19
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) make a supplemental direct commodity payment to eligible producers that previously received such a payment; (2) make grants to states to assist eligible specialty crop producers for losses associated with drought or excessive rainfall during 2009; (3) provide supplemental assistance to eligible producers and first-handlers of the 2009 crop of cottonseed in disaster counties; (4) continue to carry out the 2002 livestock compensation program and provide assistance to any applicant that conducts a livestock operation located in a disaster county or produces fish classified within the family Ictaluridae (catfish); and (5) make payments to eligible producers for livestock losses occurring in a disaster county.

Date: 2009-12-02
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to to eliminate the phase-in of the tax deduction for income attributable to domestic production activities and permit the full 9% deduction amount for taxable years beginning after 2008.

Date: 2009-12-03
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Taxation
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to use funds provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or appropriation measures through FY2012 for any required non-federal share of the cost of projects that: (1) are funded by the federal government; (2) are located in an area that either has been identified by the U.S. Drought Monitor as experiencing severe, extreme, or exceptional drought within the 24 months prior to this Act's enactment or has been designated as a disaster area by California during 2009; (3) will make progress towards providing a more reliable water supply for California and protecting, restoring, and enhancing the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ecosystem, will increase water management flexibility, or will reduce impacts on environmental resources from projects operated by the California State Department of Water Resources, the California State Department of Fish and Game, the Bureau of Reclamation, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, or other relevant state and federal agencies; (4) show potential to restore agriculture production or agricultural employment for such areas; and (5) have made significant progress in the completion of any necessary environmental or public review. Directs that the use of funds for the nonfederal share of projects as authorized in this Act be considered a drought assistance adjustment. Requires the Secretary to establish criteria for calculating such adjustments utilizing existing practices for adjustments in water service and repayment rates.

Date: 2009-12-08
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Water resources development
Reduce and End our Deficits Using Commonsense Eliminations in the Agriculture Program Act - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to terminate cotton and peanut storage payments. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to terminate the Forest Service's Economic Action Program. Amends the Wool Suit and Textile Trade Extension Act of 2004 to terminate the grant program for manufacturers of worsted wool fabrics. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to terminate the Delta region health care services program. Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to terminate the grant and loan program for energy generation, transmission, and distribution facilities efficiency in rural communities with extremely high energy costs. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to revise income eligibility limitations for: (1) commodity program non-farm income; (2) direct payment farm income; and (3) conservation program non-farm income. Reduces crop year payment limits for covered commodity and peanut: (1) direct payments; (2) counter-cyclical payments; and (3) average crop revenue election (ACRE)/counter-cyclical payments. Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to revise the definition of "payment acres" for covered commodity and peanut direct and counter-cyclical payments. Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to reduce additional FY2011 and FY2012 funding for the market access program. Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to reduce the reimbursement rate beginning in FY2011 for private insurance providers under the crop insurance program. Prohibits the Secretary from conducting timber sales in the Southwestern, Pacific Southwest, or Alaska region of the National Forest System where federal expenditures to support timber sales have been significantly higher than offsetting receipts until the Secretary certifies to Congress that timber sales in the region will generate receipts at least equal to supporting federal expenditures.

Date: 2010-07-20
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a pilot program under which a participating state, in lieu of obtaining any or a portion of the state's allotment of specialty food crops for use in the school lunch and breakfast programs, receives a grant in an amount equal to the value of the commodities for FY2011 and FY2012. Requires the grant funds to be used solely to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables for distribution to schools and service institutions participating in the school lunch and breakfast programs. Limits pilot program participation to three states.

Date: 2010-07-21
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Education
Mandatory Price Reporting Act of 2010 - Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to: (1) extend reporting requirements for livestock daily markets through September 30, 2015; (2) establish mandatory reporting for wholesale pork cuts; and (3) direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish, and implement within one year, an electronic price reporting system for dairy products.

Date: 2010-07-26
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Farm Credit Expansion Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to expand eligibility for Farm Service Agency operating loans, farm ownership loans, conservation loans, and emergency loans. Deems specified embedded entities (an entity owned wholly or in part by another entity) eligible for farm ownership and operating loans. Deems specified operating-only entities eligible for farm ownership loans. Deems an entity that is an owner-operator or operator to meet the direct ownership loan requirement if it is owned in whole or in part by other entities and each individual that is an owner of the family farm involved has an ownership interest in each of the other entities.

Date: 2010-07-30
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Authorizes the Navajo Nation to enter into commercial or agricultural leases of up to 99 years on their tribal lands.

Date: 2010-09-23
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Native Americans
Free Market Sugar Act - Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to repeal the sugar loan program. Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to repeal the feedstock flexibility program for bioenergy producers. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to repeal sugar marketing allotment provisions. Replaces sugar quota import shortfall provisions with a provision requiring the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish the tariff-rate quotas for raw cane sugar and refined sugars for a quota year at the level necessary to ensure: (1) a competitive U.S. sugar processing industry; and (2) an adequate and reasonably-priced sugar supply in the United States. Exempts specialty sugar from such provision. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to repeal the sugar price support program.

Date: 2010-09-29
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend, until December 31, 2012, the suspension of the 15-year limitation on the period for which borrowers of agricultural operating loans are eligible for guaranteed assistance.

Date: 2010-11-17
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Energy and Technology Advancement Act of 2009 - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Agriculture, in order to further the adoption of technologies developed by the Department of Agriculture (USDA), to establish criteria and procedures to facilitate and encourage businesses and other organizations to: (1) rent government equipment and property for the development of new and improved products and processes; (2) authorize USDA and private sector employees to work together in experimental or production facilities owned by the federal government or a private entity; (3) provide business support services to start-up and small businesses; and (4) enter into cooperative agreements with educational and governmental units to support business incubators for businesses that use technologies and products of interest to the Secretary.Requires the Secretary to submit to the appropriate congressional committees a plan for the development and construction of a biorefinery pilot plant that is able to: (1) produce liquid fuels from woody, agricultural, and other biomass in a flexible, multi-bioproduct manner, in a sustainable manner that addresses life-cycle inputs and outputs, and in quantities sufficient to provide proof of process and to allow for business incubator and support services; and (2) employ thermochemical and biochemical conversion processes in the production of liquid fuels.Requires the Secretary to include in the plan a comprehensive estimate of each cost relating to the development and construction of the biorefinery pilot plant.

Date: 2009-01-13
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Agriculture Competition Enhancement Act of 2009 - Establishes in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice a Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Agricultural Antitrust Matters who shall: (1) be responsible for oversight and coordination of agriculture-related antitrust and related matters; and (2) work in coordination with the Task Force and the Department of Agriculture on all agricultural competition matters.Establishes under the authority of the Attorney General the Agriculture Competition Task Force to examine problems in agricultural competition.Amends the Clayton Act to revise the defendant's burden of proof in agribusiness mergers in which the plaintiff is: (1) the federal or state government; or (2) any other plaintiff.Directs the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to: (1) draft agriculture-specific guidelines to use when reviewing agriculture mergers; and (2) conduct post merger reviews of certain agribusiness mergers five years after approval.Establishes within the Department of Agriculture the Office of Competition and Fair Practices to be headed by a Special Counsel for Competition Matters who shall: (1) analyze mergers within the food and agricultural sectors; and (2) investigate and prosecute violations of the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921. Provides for agribusiness merger review and enforcement by the Department of Agriculture.Authorizes appropriations for additional staff for the Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration to investigate the competitive implications of structural changes in the meat packing and poultry industries.

Date: 2009-02-03
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Commerce
Prevent Excessive Speculation Act - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to extend its coverage to specified energy commodities, including: (1) crude oil; (2) natural gas; (3) coal; (4) gasoline, heating oil, diesel fuel, and any other source of energy derived from coal, crude oil, or natural gas; (5) electricity; and (6) renewable biomass-derived fuels. Prohibits the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from permitting a foreign board of trade providing its members (or other participants subject to CFTC jurisdiction) direct access to its electronic trading and order matching system, unless specified requirements are met. Authorizes the CFTC to: (1) require recordkeeping by any person either located within the United States or entering trades directly into the trade matching system of a foreign board of trade from the United States; and (2) require a person in the United States or subject to CFTC jurisdiction to limit or liquidate any position on a foreign board of trade to reduce the threat of price manipulation. Directs the CFTC to convene a working group of international regulators to develop uniform international reporting and regulatory standards to protect energy futures markets from excessive speculation, manipulation, and other trading practices that may pose systemic risks to energy futures markets, countries, and consumers. Directs the CFTC to establish position limits for energy and agricultural commodities. Authorizes the CFTC to require or permit a contract market, derivatives transaction execution facility, or electronic trading facility, with respect to a significant price discovery contract, to establish and enforce position accountability. Authorizes the CFTC to exercise oversight over any disturbance in a commodity market that disrupts its liquidity and price discovery function from accurately reflecting a commodity's supply and demand ("major market disturbance"). Sets forth reporting requirements for covered traders. Requires the CFTC to identify each large over-the-counter transaction or class of such transactions in order to detect and prevent potential price manipulation of, or excessive speculation in, any contract listed for trading on a registered entity. Instructs the CFTC to: (1) routinely require detailed reporting from index traders and swap dealers in markets under its jurisdiction; and (2) review the trading practices for index traders in markets under its jurisdiction to ensure that index trading is not adversely impacting the price discovery process. Requires the CFTC to disaggregate and make public monthly: (1) the number of positions and total value of index funds and other passive, long-only positions in energy and agricultural markets; and (2) data on speculative positions relative to bona fide physical hedgers in such markets. Directs the CFTC to appoint additional CFTC enforcement employees.

Date: 2009-02-13
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Finance and financial sector
Democracy for Dairy Producers Act of 2009 - Requires, with respect to a specified referendum on federal milk marketing orders and related reforms, that: (1) if a cooperative association of milk producers elects bloc voting on behalf of its members it must provide each producer with written notice regarding individual ballot procedures, the milk marketing information clearinghouse, and the cooperative's voting intention; and (2) the Secretary of Agriculture adjust the association vote to reflect individual producer votes. Requires that each federal milk marketing order: (1) establish a referendum information clearinghouse that includes individual ballot information and referendum due dates and texts; and (2) provide producers with referendum alerts.

Date: 2009-03-23
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Quality Cheese Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration from using federal funds to amend specified regulations to include dry ultra-filtered milk, milk protein concentrate, or casein in the definition of "milk" or "nonfat milk" as specified in the domestic natural standards for cheese and cheese products.

Date: 2009-03-23
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Federal Milk Marketing Reform Act of 2009 - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from using distance or transportation costs from a location not within a marketing area as the basis for pricing Class I (fluid) milk unless such location supplies the recipient marketing area with specified quantities of milk (single base point pricing).

Date: 2009-03-23
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Federal Milk Marketing Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to base the minimum Class II milk price on the average production cost of producing all milk in the 48 contiguous states. Directs the Secretary to: (1) announce the minimum price for Class II milk by November 1 of each year, with specified price adjustment dates; (2) use the Class II milk price as the basic formula price for all federal and state milk marketing orders and all unregulated milk production areas; and (3) estimate annual milk production and domestic consumption. States that the price of Class I (fluid) milk price in all federal and state milk marketing orders and all unregulated milk production areas shall be equal to the basic formula price plus the applicable Class I differential under federal and state milk marketing orders. Authorizes the Secretary, upon a determination of a positive dairy trade balance and excess production, to provide for a producer price reduction of not more than 5% of all milk produced in the 48 contiguous states and marketed by producers for commercial use. Prohibits imposition of producer charges for the cost of hauling milk or the conversion of raw milk to manufactured products. Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) milk inventory management; and (2) milk handler responsibilities. States that in the case of a federal milk order, disapproval of an amendment to the order shall not be considered disapproval of the order or of other terms of the order.

Date: 2009-04-23
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Family Dairy Preservation Act of 2009 - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to increase milk income loss contract payments for the period March 1, 2009-November 30, 2009.

Date: 2009-06-23
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Dairy Fairness Act of 2009 - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to annually index for inflation payments under the milk income loss contract program.

Date: 2009-06-23
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Family Dairy Preservation Act of 2009 - Amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to increase milk income loss contract payments for the period March 1, 2009-November 30, 2009.

Date: 2009-07-06
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat trees or vines producing fruit, nuts, or other crops as placed in service in the year in which they are planted for purposes of the additional 50% bonus depreciation allowance.

Date: 2009-07-16
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Taxation
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to assess and collect a user fee from each food facility, drug or device facility, or biologics facility for which a follow-up inspection is required to ensure correction of a violation found by the Secretary during initial inspection of the facility or establishment of a good manufacturing practices requirement under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

Date: 2009-07-21
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Health
Unsafe Meat and Poultry Recall Act - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to: (1) direct a person (other than a household consumer or other exempted person) who believes a meat or poultry product that such person handled is adulterated or misbranded to notify the Secretary of Agriculture; (2) direct the Secretary, upon a determination of a public health risk from such adulteration or misbranding, to permit the person to voluntarily provide handler notification, cease distribution, recall such product, and provide consumer notice; and (3) authorize the Secretary, in the case of noncompliance, to require that the person take such actions (other than consumer notice which shall be provided by the Secretary). Defines "person" as any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other business unit.

Date: 2009-07-28
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Federal Milk Marketing Improvement Act of 2009 - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to base the minimum Class II milk price on the average production cost of producing all milk in the 48 contiguous states. Directs the Secretary to: (1) announce the minimum price for Class II milk by November 1 of each year, with specified price adjustment dates; (2) use the Class II milk price as the basic formula price for all federal and state milk marketing orders and all unregulated milk production areas; and (3) estimate annual milk production and domestic consumption. States that the price of Class I (fluid) milk price in all federal and state milk marketing orders and all unregulated milk production areas shall be equal to the basic formula price plus the applicable Class I differential under federal and state milk marketing orders. Authorizes the Secretary, upon a determination of a positive dairy trade balance and excess production, to provide for a producer price reduction of not more than 5% of all milk produced in the 48 contiguous states and marketed by producers for commercial use. Prohibits imposition of producer charges for the cost of hauling milk or the conversion of raw milk to manufactured products. Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) milk inventory management; and (2) milk handler responsibilities. States that in the case of a federal milk order, disapproval of an amendment to the order shall not be considered disapproval of the order or of other terms of the order.

Date: 2009-08-06
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain hydration systems.

Date: 2009-10-29
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce temporarily the duty on parts of microwave ovens for the industrial preparation or manufacture of dried vegetable snack (small portions of food usually eaten other than at meal times) items.

Date: 2009-10-29
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce temporarily the duty on parts of machinery for the industrial preparation or manufacture of dried vegetable snack (small portions of food usually eaten other than at meal times) items.

Date: 2009-10-29
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
E. Coli Eradication Act of 2009 - Amends the the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require that slaughterhouses, processing establishments, and grinding facilities perform specified tests for the presence of E. coli O157:H7 in ground beef. Subjects imported trim, bench trim, and ground beef to the same testing requirements as domestic trim, bench trim, and ground beef.

Date: 2009-11-18
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2009 to increase the FY2010 amount for emergency food assistance program commodity purchases.

Date: 2009-11-19
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) make a supplemental direct commodity payment to eligible producers that previously received such a payment; (2) make grants to states to assist eligible specialty crop producers for losses associated with drought or excessive rainfall during 2009; (3) provide supplemental assistance to eligible producers and first-handlers of the 2009 crop of cottonseed in disaster counties; (4) continue to carry out the 2002 livestock compensation program and provide assistance to any applicant that conducts a livestock operation located in a disaster county or produces fish classified within the family Ictaluridae (catfish); and (5) make payments to eligible producers for livestock losses occurring in a disaster county.

Date: 2009-11-20
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Processed Food Safety Act of 2009 - Amends the Poultry Products Inspection Act and the Federal Meat Inspection Act to prohibit the sale or transport in commerce of any processed poultry, poultry product, meat, or meat food product capable of human consumption that has not undergone a pathogen reduction treatment for each ingredient or been certified to contain no verifiable traces of pathogens. Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require each registered facility to: (1) apply pathogen reduction treatments to each food that it manufactures, processes, packages, or holds for consumption in the United States; and (2) certify that each such food contains no verifiable traces of pathogens, or that each such food leaving the facility has received required pathogen reduction treatments. Requires coloring, synthetic flavorings, and spices used in such products to be named.

Date: 2009-11-30
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Rural Access to Credit Act of 2010 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to use commercial lending standards in determining equity requirements for rural entity direct or guaranteed loans. Directs the Secretary, through December 31, 2011, to guarantee up to 90% of high priority business and industry loans up to $10 million. Authorizes the Secretary, beginning on January 1, 2012, to guarantee up to 80% or 90% of high priority business and industry loans up to $10 million. Directs the Secretary to guarantee related line-of-credit loans. Authorizes business and industry loans to be used for refinancing. Waives audit requirements for business and industry loans under $1 million. Authorizes audit waiver for loans of at least $1 million. Directs the Secretary to use the Small Business Administration (SBA) calculation method in calculating the delinquency rate for business and industry loans. Expresses the sense of Congress that in allocating discretionary funds the Secretary should give priority to the rural microentrepreneur assistance program.

Date: 2010-03-05
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend, until December 31, 2012, the suspension of the 15-year limitation on the period for which borrowers of agricultural operating loans are eligible for guaranteed assistance.

Date: 2010-04-19
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Mandatory Price Reporting Act of 2010 - Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to: (1) extend reporting requirements for livestock daily markets through September 30, 2015; (2) establish mandatory reporting for wholesale pork cuts; and (3) direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish, and implement within one year, an electronic price reporting system for dairy products.

Date: 2010-07-27
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Farm Credit Expansion Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to expand eligibility for Farm Service Agency operating loans, farm ownership loans, conservation loans, and emergency loans. Deems specified embedded entities (an entity owned wholly or in part by another entity) eligible for farm ownership and operating loans. Deems specified operating-only entities eligible for farm ownership loans. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to determine that an entity that is an owner-operator or operator meets the direct ownership loan requirement if it is owned in whole or in part by other entities and each individual that is an owner of the family farm involved has an ownership interest in each of the other entities.

Date: 2010-09-21
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Long-Term Care Bailout Prevention Act - Repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act entitled the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, or the CLASS Act, which establish a national, voluntary insurance program for purchasing community living assistance services and supports in order to provide individuals with functional limitations with tools that will allow them to maintain their personal and financial independence and live in the community.

Date: 2010-09-23
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Health
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to promulgate a rule: (1) to improve the daytime and nighttime visibility of agricultural equipment operating on public roads; and (2) that establishes minimum lighting and marking standards for such equipment. Requires the Secretary to review and revise such standards at least once every five years to reflect the latest revision of American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Standard 279 entitled "Lighting and Marking of Agricultural Equipment on Highways".

Date: 2010-12-07
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Transportation and public works
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the issuance of tax-exempt small issue bonds to finance the purchase of property or land used primarily for the processing of agricultural products.

Date: 2011-01-12
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Taxation
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Grower Tax Incentive Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow farmers whose gross receipts attributable to fruit and vegetable farming were not more than $500,000 for the previous taxable year a business-related tax credit equal to the lesser of $10,000 or the taxable income attributable to fruit and vegetable farming. Defines "fruit and vegetable farming" as the farming and sale of fruits, vegetables, or both in fresh form generally considered as perishable, but not including any grains or any perishable fruits and vegetables which have been manufactured into articles of food of a different kind or character.

Date: 2011-01-19
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Taxation
San Joaquin Valley USDA Rural Definition Inclusion Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to designate any part of the areas within the Counties of Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tulare, California, as a rural area if any such part is determined not to be urban in character (other than any area included within the municipal boundaries of Bakersfield, Fresno, Modesto, Stockton, or Visalia).

Date: 2011-02-17
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Agricultural Credit Expansion Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to expand eligibility for Farm Service Agency operating loans, farm ownership loans, conservation loans, and emergency loans. Deems specified embedded entities (an entity owned wholly or in part by another entity) eligible for farm ownership and operating loans. Deems specified operating-only entities eligible for farm ownership loans. Deems an entity that is an owner-operator or operator to meet the direct ownership loan requirement if it is owned in whole or in part by other entities and each individual that is an owner of the family farm involved has an ownership interest in each of the other entities.

Date: 2011-03-02
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to suspend, during the period December 31, 2010-December 31, 2011, the prohibition on the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to guarantee an agricultural operating loan for any year after the 15th year that a loan or loan guarantee is made to the borrower.

Date: 2011-03-29
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Maple Tapping Access Program Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to make grants to states and tribal governments to promote the domestic maple syrup industry through: (1) promotion of research and education, (2) promotion of natural resource sustainability, (3) market promotion, and (4) encouragement of owners and operators of privately held land to initiate or expand maple-sugaring activities or to voluntarily make the land available to the public for maple-sugaring activities. Defines "maple-sugaring" as the collection of sap from any species of tree in the genus Acer for the purpose of boiling to produce food.

Date: 2011-03-30
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Free Market Sugar Act - Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to repeal the sugar loan program. Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to repeal the feedstock flexibility program for bioenergy producers. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to repeal sugar marketing allotment provisions. Replaces sugar quota import shortfall provisions with a provision requiring the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish the tariff-rate quotas for raw cane sugar and refined sugars for a quota year at the level necessary to ensure: (1) a competitive U.S. sugar processing industry, and (2) an adequate and reasonably-priced sugar supply in the United States. Exempts specialty sugar from such provision. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to repeal the sugar price support program.

Date: 2011-04-06
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Farmland Preservation and Land Conservation Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an estate and gift tax exclusion for real property located in the United States which at the time of a decedent's death was being used as a farm for farming purposes or exclusively for conservation purposes. Imposes: (1) an additional estate or gift tax with respect to such property if an heir or donee disposes of or uses such property for other than farming or conservation purposes, and (2) a federal tax lien on such property until liability for estate or gift tax with respect to such property has been satisfied or has become unenforceable.

Date: 2011-04-15
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Taxation
Creating Real Opportunities for Prosperity (CROP) Act - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to suspend the limitation on the period for which borrowers are eligible for loan guarantee assistance through December 31, 2013.

Date: 2011-04-15
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Free Sugar Act of 2011 - Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to repeal the sugar loan program.

Date: 2011-05-05
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the classification of certain farming business machinery and equipment as five-year property for purposes of the tax deduction for depreciation.

Date: 2011-05-05
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Taxation
Farmers' Freedom Act of 2011 - Exempts certain farm vehicles (including the individual operating the vehicle) from certain federal requirements (for a commercial driver's license, drug testing, medical certificates, and hours of service) governing the operation of motor vehicles. Prohibits federal transportation funding to a state from being terminated, limited, or otherwise interfered with as a result of the state's exempting a covered farm vehicle (including the individual operating that vehicle, but excluding any farm vehicle transporting hazardous materials requiring a placard) from any state requirements governing the operation of that vehicle.

Date: 2011-07-06
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Transportation and public works
Reducing the Deficit through Eliminating Agriculture Direct Payment Subsidies Act of 2011 or REAPS Act of 2011 - Amends the the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to terminate direct payments for covered commodities and peanuts. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to limit to $65,000 per crop year: (1) average crop revenue election (ACRE) and counter-cyclical payments for one or more covered commodities, and (2) ACRE payments for peanuts. Applies such provisions to the 2012 crop year.

Date: 2011-07-11
Topic: Agriculture (Subsidies to Farmers)
Subject: Agriculture and food