AGRICULTURE REFORM, FOOD, AND JOBS ACT
Amendments
Enact (S. 3240), S3787, S3789, S3790, S3791, S3792, S3793, S3794, S3795, S3796, S3797 [6JN], S3845, S3846, S3847, S3848, S3849, S3850, S3851, S3852, S3853, S3854, S3855, S3856, S3857, S3867, S3868, S3869 [7JN], S3903, S3904, S3905, S3906, S3907, S3908, S3909, S3910, S3911, S3912, S3913, S3916, S3917, S3918, S3919, S3921, S3922, S3923, S3924 [11JN], S3962, S3963, S3985, S3986, S3987, S3989, S3991, S3992, S3993, S3994, S3997, S3998, S3999, S4000, S4001, S4099, S4102, S4103, S4104, S4106, S4107 [12JN], S4126, S4127, S4153, S4154, S4155, S4156, S4157, S4158, S4159, S4160 [13JN], S4208, S4209, S4210, S4211, S4212, S4213, S4216, S4217 [14JN], S4243, S4244, S4245, S4246, S4247 [18JN], S4266, S4267, S4268, S4269, S4270, S4271, S4272, S4273, S4274, S4275, S4276, S4277, S4278, S4279, S4280, S4281, S4306 [19JN], S4334, S4335, S4336, S4337, S4338, S4339, S4340, S4341, S4343, S4344, S4345, S4346, S4347, S4348, S4349, S4350, S4351, S4352, S4353, S4354, S4355, S4356, S4357 [20JN], S4381, S4382, S4383, S4384, S4385, S4389 [21JN]
Articles and editorials
U.S. Should Legalize Industrial Hemp, S4138 [13JN]
Bills and resolutions
Enact (see S. 3240), S3631 [24MY]
Cloture motions
Enact (S. 3240): motion to proceed, S3714 [5JN], S3807 [7JN]
Letters
Provisions: several agricultural organizations, S6313 [13SE]
Motions
Enact (S. 3240), S3714 [5JN], S3803 [7JN], S3962 [12JN], S4124, S4125 [13JN], S4350, S4352 [20JN]
Remarks in House
Agriculture: sugar price support program funding, H3710 [18JN]
Enact (S. 3240), H3710 [18JN], H3743 [19JN]
Remarks in Senate
Agriculture: exempt farms with aboveground fuel storage tanks of a certain size from EPA Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule, S3960 [12JN]
——— extend certain supplemental agricultural disaster assistance programs, S5836 [1AU], S6314 [13SE]
——— prohibit issuance of new EPA rule on municipal and industrial stormwater discharges prior to completion of evaluation of current rule, S3960 [12JN]
——— promote biobased manufacturing, S4171, S4196 [14JN]
——— promote local and regional farm and food systems, S4393 [21JN]
——— promote SBA Microloan Program to businesses to establish gleaning programs that redistribute surplus food to organizations that serve the hungry, S3817 [7JN]
——— promote U.S. agricultural export programs, S3816 [7JN]
——— provide for a uniform national standard for the housing and treatment of egg-laying hens, S4282 [19JN]
——— reduce programs funding to 2008 levels, S4350, S4351 [20JN]
——— strengthen rural communities and foster the next generation of farmers and ranchers, S4270 [19JN]
——— sugar price support program funding, S3964–S3968 [12JN], S4118–S4125, S4130 [13JN], S4349 [20JN], S4400 [21JN]
——— water conservation programs funding, S4268, S4269 [19JN]
Animals: ensure that extras in film and television who bring personal, domesticated household pets do not face unnecessary regulations, S4353 [20JN]
Budget: require detailed reports to Congress on impact of defense and non-defense budget sequestration, S4386–S4388 [21JN]
Controlled Substances Act: exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marijuana, S4138, S4139 [13JN], S4399 [21JN]
Crime: prohibit attendance of an animal fighting venture, S3960 [12JN], S4353 [20JN]
Dept. of Agriculture: air quality improvement project funding, S4274 [19JN]
——— allow States to obtain a waiver from Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to incentivize healthier food purchases by beneficiaries, S3817 [7JN], S4137 [13JN], S4399 [21JN]
——— assist eligible schools and nonprofit entities to implement farm to school programs that improve access to local foods in eligible schools, S3817 [7JN], S4137 [13JN], S4196 [14JN], S4344, S4345 [20JN], S4399 [21JN]
——— Biomass Crop Assistance Program funding, S4173 [14JN]
——— biomass research and development funding, S4172 [14JN]
——— clarify regulations for programs that provide loans to purchasers of highly fractionated Native American lands, S4266 [19JN]
——— Community Wood Energy Program biomass cooperatives grant funding, S4353 [20JN]
——— Conservation Stewardship Program and Environmental Quality Incentives Program funding, S4135, S4139–S4141 [13JN]
——— consolidation and streamlining of conservation programs, S4139 [13JN]
——— determine the price of all milk used for manufactured purposes by using the national average cost of production, S4391 [21JN]
——— eliminate farm subsidies, S3935 [12JN], S4195 [14JN]
——— eliminate Organic Certification Cost Share and Agricultural Management Assistance Program, S4276, S4277 [19JN]
——— encourage partnerships between the National Agriculture Library and educational institutions to support the dissemination of objective and scholarly agricultural and food law research and information, S4345 [20JN]
——— end State bonus payments for administering the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, S4272 [19JN]
——— ensure that farmers are able to buy public varieties of seeds, S4127 [13JN]
——— ensure that performance bonus payments are used by State agencies only to carry out the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, S4272 [19JN]
——— establish a pilot loan program to assist organizations providing healthful food for the hungry, S4345, S4346 [20JN]
——— establish a program to provide loans for local farms, ranches, and market gardens to improve public health and nutrition and reduce energy consumption, S4391 [21JN]
——— establish the Aggregate Risk and Revenue Management Program, S4143 [13JN]
——— Farmers Market Promotion Program funding, S4357 [20JN]
——— Federal milk marketing order program reform, S4268 [19JN]
——— Food for Peace program funding, S4130 [13JN]
——— improve agricultural land easements, S4357, S4358 [20JN]
——— improve crop insurance, S4195, S4198 [14JN], S5201 [19JY], S5836 [1AU]
——— improve efficiency, digestibility, and nutritional value of food for poultry and livestock, S4196 [14JN], S4352 [20JN]
——— improve energy programs, S4396 [21JN]
——— improve livestock forage disaster plan, S4267, S4268 [19JN]
——— include multi-year price decline protections in the Agriculture Risk Coverage program, S4358 [20JN]
——— limit conservation program payments based on adjusted gross income of the producer, S4264 [19JN], S4337 [20JN]
——— limit crop insurance premium subsidies based on adjusted gross income of the producer, S3950–S3952 [12JN], S4263 [19JN], S4355, S4356 [20JN]
——— limit farm subsidy payments based on adjusted gross income of the producer, S4273 [19JN]
——— limit payments for marketing loan gains and loan deficiency payments, S4269 [19JN]
——— Market Access Program funding, S4263 [19JN], S4336 [20JN]
——— modify crop insurance eligibility requirements to include compliance with conservation laws, S4354 [20JN]
——— move the sugar import quota adjustment date forward in the crop year, S4356 [20JN]
——— permanently establish the Office of Tribal Relations, S4266 [19JN]
——— prohibit any entity receiving a business and industry direct or guaranteed loan for a wind energy project from receiving any other Federal benefit, assistance, or incentive for the project, S4275 [19JN]
——— prohibit funding to allow categorical eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, S4270, S4271 [19JN]
——— promote access to healthful foods in areas known as health deserts, S4196 [14JN]
——— protect agricultural and forested lands from urban development, S4357, S4358 [20JN]
——— provide Non-Insured Disaster Program funding to eligible producers facing a loss due to freeze or frost, S4338 [20JN]
——— repeal Biorefinery Assistance Program, S4348 [20JN]
——— repeal duplicative inspection and grading program for catfish, S4181 [14JN]
——— repeal Forest Legacy Program, S4340 [20JN]
——— repeal the Conservation Stewardship Program and Conservation Reserve Program, S4343 [20JN]
——— replace dairy product price support and Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) programs with a program to protect dairy producer income and establish a dairy market stabilization program, S4407 [21JN]
——— report on impact of sugar-sweetened beverages on obesity and human health and examine public health proposals that affect cost and size of such beverages, S4143 [13JN]
——— require more frequent dairy reporting and conduct a study of the feasibility of establishing two classes of milk, S4273 [19JN]
——— require Risk Management Agency and FCIC to use plain language and improve website to make crop insurance more accessible, S4279 [19JN]
——— require the FCIC provide insurance to organic crops similar in terms and conditions provided for other crops, S4335 [20JN]
——— revise Housing Act requirements for areas to be considered rural areas, S4348 [20JN]
——— rural broadband telecommunications services programs funding, S4279 [19JN], S4335, S4343, S4358 [20JN]
——— Rural Energy for America Program funding, S4170 [14JN]
——— State Rural Development Partnership funding, S4347 [20JN]
——— study feasibility of establishing a business disruption insurance policy and a catastrophic event policy for poultry producers, S4274 [19JN]
——— study feasibility of establishing an insurance product that covers food safety recalls, S4276 [19JN]
——— Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding, S3754 [6JN], S3964–S3968 [12JN], S4119, S4122, S4125, S4144 [13JN], S4278 [19JN], S4352 [20JN], S4393 [21JN]
——— The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) funding through reductions in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding, S4346 [20JN]
——— value-added grant program funding, S4267 [19JN]
Dept. of Labor: prohibit finalization of certain proposed child labor rules relative to family farming, S3932 [12JN]
Depts. of Agriculture and Transportation: conduct study of rural transportation issues relative to movement of agricultural products and domestically produced renewable fuels and resources for electricity production, S4350 [20JN]
Depts. of the Interior and Agriculture: extend stewardship end result contracting authority for projects to improve land management and reduce fire hazards in national forests, S3891 [11JN], S3968 [12JN], S4399 [21JN]
Economy: express that proposed agricultural legislation not manipulate prices or intefere with the free economy, S4280 [19JN]
Enact (S. 3240), S3950–S3952, S3959–S3969 [12JN], S4118–S4135, S4137–S4141, S4143 [13JN], S4166–S4173, S4181, S4195–S4199 [14JN], S4223, S4225, S4235 [18JN], S4262–S4283 [19JN], S4313, S4334–S4359 [20JN], S4380–S4405, S4407 [21JN], S4455 [25JN], S4833 [10JY], S5175, S5201 [19JY], S5339, S5342, S5343, S5366 [25JY], S5441, S5443, S5447, S5454–S5457 [26JY], S5718 [31JY], S5810, S5836 [1AU], S5944–S5947, S5956, S5967 [2AU], S6038, S6039 [10SE], S6087 [11SE], S6312–S6315, S6325 [13SE], S6405 [19SE], S6499 [20SE], S6725 [13NO], S6768 [14NO], S7414, S7415 [5DE], S7669, S7670 [6DE], S7735 [11DE], S7786 [12DE], S8117 [18DE], S8169 [19DE], S8238, S8242 [20DE], S8346 [21DE], S8580–S8583 [31DE]
——— motion to proceed, S3714–S3717 [5JN], S3739, S3749–S3756, S3758–S3760, S3762–S3764, S3767 [6JN], S3803–S3808, S3816–S3818, S3824, S3828, S3831–S3834 [7JN], S3875–S3877, S3890–S3892 [11JN], S3932, S3935–S3937, S3945, S3949 [12JN]
——— motion to recommit, S4350–S4352 [20JN]
——— unanimous-consent agreement, S4235 [18JN], S4313, S4351 [20JN]
——— unanimous-consent request, S3961 [12JN], S4125, S4126 [13JN]
EPA: establish a temporary prohibition against revising any national ambient air quality standard for coarse particulate matter and limit Federal regulation of nuisance dust in certain areas, S3932 [12JN]
——— use of aerial surveillance of agricultural operations, S4381, S4382 [21JN]
FDA: repeal duplicate programs relating to the inspection and grading of catfish, S4275 [19JN]
——— require imported catfish be subject to same inspection standards as domestic catfish, S4264 [19JN]
Federal agencies and departments: provide that major rules of the executive branch shall have no force or effect unless a joint resolution of approval is enacted into law, S4265 [19JN]
Fish and fishing: support fisheries and communities that rely upon them, clear regulatory burdens, and streamline Federal fisheries management, S4181 [14JN]
Food: allow States to require labels on food that contains, or is produced with, a genetically engineered material, S4169 [14JN], S4384 [21JN]
Forest Service: reduce risk of catastrophic wildfire through the facilitation of insect and disease infestation treatment of national forests and adjacents lands, S4127 [13JN]
Forests: trees killed by bark beetles removal funding, S3891 [11JN], S4127 [13JN], S4339 [20JN]
Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of: prohibit food aid, S4339 [20JN]
——— prohibit food aid unless the President issues a national interest waiver, S4338 [20JN]
NLRB: permit employers to pay higher wages to their employees who are working under a union contract, S4388, S4389 [21JN]
Pakistan: prohibit assistance until Shakeel Afridi is freed, S3762 [6JN], S3961, S3962 [12JN]
Schools: encourage the purchase of pulse crop products for school meals programs, S4271 [19JN]
Securities: provide end user exemptions for certain derivative sales, S3932 [12JN]
Task Force To Promote National Security by Reducing Childhood Obesity: establish, S3818 [7JN]
Taxation: prohibit the use of public funds for political party conventions and return previously distributed funds for deficit reduction, S4264 [19JN], S4385 [21JN]
Water: amend consumer confidence reporting requirements for community water systems, S4383 [21JN]
——— clarify definition of navigable waters relative to application of environmental protection regulations, S3932 [12JN]
——— prevent finalization by the EPA or Corps of Engineers of proposed guidance on identification of waters protected by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, S3932 [12JN], S4168 [14JN]
Reports filed
Provisions: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (Senate) (S. 3240), S3630 [24MY]
——— Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (Senate) (S. 3240) (S. Rept. 112–203), S6062 [10SE]
Resolutions by organizations
Sugar price support program funding: St. Mary Parish, LA, Chamber of Commerce, E1206 [9JY]
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