HR 1387
105th Congress
House
Agriculture and Food
Acreage allotments
Agricultural credit
Agricultural price supports
Agricultural prices
Agriculture in foreign trade
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Farm production quotas
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government lending
Marketing of farm produce
Sugar
Sugar trade
To amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to convert the price support program for sugarcane and sugar beets into a system of solely recourse loans and to provide for the gradual elimination of the program.
Introduced: April 17, 1997
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 28, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops.
Apr 17, 1997
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Apr 17, 1997
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act with respect to the sugar program to: (1) reduce sugarcane loan rates through crop year 2002; (2) revise the sugar beet loan rate; (3) eliminate nonrecourse loans after FY 1997; and (4) eliminate sugar price supports after crop year 2002.
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to repeal sugar and crystalline fructose marketing quota and allotment provisions.
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985, beginning with the 1996-1997 quota year, to direct the President to use all available authority to ensure that U.S. market raw sugar shall be available at not more than the higher of the world sugar price or the U.S. loan rate.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops.
Committees of jurisdiction
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