S 1276
104th Congress
Senate
Agriculture and Food
Agricultural credit
Agricultural economics
Agricultural insurance
Agricultural price supports
Agriculture in foreign trade
Cropland conversion program
Environmental Protection
Farm lands
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Marketing of farm produce
Soil conservation
Water Resources Development
Wetland conservation
Wetlands
Wheat
Farm Income Transition Act of 1995
Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Sep 27, 1995
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Sep 27, 1995
Introduced in Senate
Sep 27, 1995
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S14408-14409)
Plain-English summary
Farm Income Transition Act of 1995 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish annual and aggregate limits on Commodity Credit Corporation farm and export expenditures through crop year 2002.
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to offer seven-year market transition contracts for cropland compliance with conservation and wetland requirements.
Makes nonrecourse marketing assistance loans available through crop year 2002 for specified crops.
Directs the Secretary to carry out a pilot and subsequent national program of voluntary revenue insurance to provide agricultural producers with an indemnity for lost revenues.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Committees of jurisdiction
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